Places kkthemook Wants to Go

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Heron, whitewater rapids, and urban industrialism all add to the beauty of this concrete nature walk.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

Within this beautiful Pittsburgh cemetery, a unique headstone bears witness to one man's eternal love for Jaws.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

This war hero's old shop remembers the fine line between medicine and quackery during the Revolutionary War.

An original apothecary from 1792.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.