Places SemiruralYeti Wants to Go

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

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

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

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

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The final resting place of the visionary founders of Kelloggs, a global leader in breakfast cereals.

A 30-foot-tall sculpture pays homage to what was once the Steering Wheel Capital of the World.

The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.

In addition to the usual gravestones, this Michigan cemetery features a birdhouse mausoleum and an Ark of the Covenant replica.

A larger-than-life version of the hat beloved by hunters, outdoorsmen, and Holden Caulfield.

On a remote island in the northern reaches of Lake Michigan, a museum of collectibles collides with a vintage toy store.