This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

The Paul Bunyan of the steel industry.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

Don't get it twisted: This is the oldest pretzel bakery in the United States.

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.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A gift to the children of Boston, this bronze bear represents playfulness, a spirit of love, and the warmth of big hugs.

Former home of an abolitionist couple who escaped slavery and established the most active Underground Railroad stop in Boston.

The former home of a Boston physician whose murder led to a revolution in forensic science.

Dedicated to a colonial woman who was hanged for being a Quaker.

This beautiful Cape Cod beach offers dazzling views and an interesting historical footnote.

It took 275 years and four burials to finally put the Mayflower’s most famous passenger to rest.

The monument is inscribed, "To Sagamore John and those Mystic Indians Whose Bones Lie Here”.

A dedication plaque on this Boston tunnel is a microcosm of a massive, controversy-laden construction project.