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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

When you can't get to the Pacific, just go to Florida.

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This historic hotel invented the chocolate brownie.

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

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

Memorial of the Salem witchcraft hysteria in the town of Danvers, where it all began.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The magic's in the hole!

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

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.