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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 Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

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.

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

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Visitors can walk over the largest concentration of Columbian mammoths to have died from one event.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

A shrine to the royal lord of all cacti.

A curious statue fit for a mad tea party.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Once seen as a bit of an eyesore, this sculpture has become a staple of downtown Houston.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

Canada's subterranean Cold War museum has doubled as a movie set.

This island castle contains enough secret passageways to support a season of Scooby-Doo episodes.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

This giant roadside fruit is home to an array of apple-based treats.