The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

A local prank turned town icon.

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

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

A Looff creation in Santa Monica best described as “a California-Byzantine-Moorish-style fantasy.”

A second generation sun-powered marvel lights up the night.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Where the oil industry began.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

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

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

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

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.