A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A factory in Milwaukee where poop is reclaimed… and recycled.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.

Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.

The Bong-area park police have asked visitors to please, stop stealing the signs.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

This outdoor exhibit features a historic wooden dam once used to help boats navigate the Ohio River.

Collectors keep the story of Ohio Valley glassmaking alive.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Tucked into Pittsburgh’s North Side, the Mattress Factory is a labyrinth of permanent, room-sized installations where artists transform entire spaces into mind-bending, immersive worlds.

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

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

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

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

One of the oldest surviving lock houses on the Ohio River.

A storybook church made from a mesmerizing medley of multi-colored stones.

A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.

Housing the history of a small Ohio town that is known to some as the pottery capital of the United States.