Places mikeblan1996 Wants to Go

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

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

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

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

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

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

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

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

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Former bath house turns gastropub.

A science teacher's dream.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

The artist and New York City icon lived, worked and died in this converted carriage house owned by another iconic artist, Andy Warhol.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

Rome's ancient Etruscan rival, now a park full of ruins.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.