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Pyongyang, North Korea

Mangyongdae Funfair

This abandoned-looking amusement park is frighteningly open for business.

Kavernputt
Permanently Closed

Smithfield, Pennsylvania

Kavernputt

A miniature golf course crafted inside the world's largest simulated cave.

Inventron 54.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Inventionland

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

The Igloo Soft Freeze

Everett, Pennsylvania

The Igloo Soft Freeze

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

An unexpected sight in suburban Philadelphia.

Elkins Park, Pennsylvania

Beth Sholom Congregation

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

Avenue of 444 Flags

Hermitage, Pennsylvania

Avenue of 444 Flags

An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

Halloween face jugs.

Altoona, Pennsylvania

Castle Halloween Museum

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

Nebraska Bridge.

Tionesta, Pennsylvania

Nebraska Bridge

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

Recycled Cascade Park rollercoasters.

New Castle, Pennsylvania

Cascade Park

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

Donora Smog Museum

Donora, Pennsylvania

Donora Smog Museum and Historical Society

A museum commemorating the Donora Smog, which killed 20 people in October 1948 and sparked national outrage over air pollution.

Indian Caverns visitors center on the hillside.
Permanently Closed

Spruce Creek, Pennsylvania

Indian Caverns

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

Boomer.

New Hope, Pennsylvania

Boomer

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

Frost Entomological Museum

State College, Pennsylvania

Frost Entomological Museum

Penn State's giant bug collection.

The site of the battle in 2007

Farmington, Pennsylvania

Jumonville Glen

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

Thomas Pursell’s Escape Burial Hatch.

Williamsport, Pennsylvania

Thomas Pursell’s Escape Burial Hatch

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

VW Beetle Spider.

Erie, Pennsylvania

Schaefer's Auto Art

A quirky collection of outsider art made from automobile parts.

reCARstruction.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

reCARstruction

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

Linesville Spillway

Linesville, Pennsylvania

Linesville Spillway

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

"Horse at Water" from a distance.

Bensalem, Pennsylvania

Horse at Water

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

The reconstructed Drake Oil Well demonstrates the first practical use of salt drilling techniques for the extraction of petroleum through an oil well

Titusville, Pennsylvania

Drake Well Museum

Where the oil industry began.

Two of the entrances are visible in satellite imagery.

Fairfield, Pennsylvania

Raven Rock Mountain Complex

The Cold War-era "underground Pentagon" is a sprawling subterranean hideaway for the Defense Department.

USS Niagara... or is it?

Erie, Pennsylvania

USS Niagara

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

Hundreds of machines are setup for the tournaments.
Permanently Closed

Carnegie, Pennsylvania

Professional and Amateur Pinball Association World Headquarters

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

Nine Mile Run

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Nine Mile Run

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

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