Altoona, Pennsylvania
Horseshoe Curve
This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.
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Altoona, Pennsylvania
This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.
Plano, Illinois
Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.
Springfield, Missouri
The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.
Miami, Oklahoma
This historic theater's pipe organ still accompanies silent films just like it did in 1929.
Commerce, Oklahoma
The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.
Jerome, Arizona
A Wild West jailhouse that slid down the mountainside.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Malvern, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.
Mt. Jewett, Pennsylvania
Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.
Loretto, Pennsylvania
The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.
Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania
A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.
Lewistown, Pennsylvania
A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.
Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
This abandoned iron furnace was one of the first to use coke—a type of high-carbon fuel—to make iron.