Places LaraInClover Wants to Go

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

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

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

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

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Fans of vintage Vegas, kitsch, and toy pony-based gambling now flock to a casino called The D.

This vintage animatronics show is the Vegas version of a walk through the woods.

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.