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

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

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

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

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

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

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The life’s work of a sculptor preserved in the Maine woods.

See the oldest known traditional stone-ground mustard mill at work at this Down East mainstay.

Admire an ever-changing landscape of stone sculptures.

Forrest Gump ran past this iconic Maine lighthouse in his cinematic cross-country journey.

It's a repurposed treasure trove of history, located just an hour away from Acadia National Park.

One of the country's best automotive museums and home to one of the first motor vehicles.

A nature and outdoor art preserve features the large-scale, abstract works of a renowned Maine folk artist.

This roadside stand claims to be the world's smallest bookstore.

If a visit to this farmhouse feels as if you are stepping into an artistic masterpiece, you’d be right.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

The first bridge observation tower in the U.S. offers one of the best views of Maine.