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

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

"We Seceded Where Others Failed."

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

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

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

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

An annual extravaganza of Broadway theater memorabilia.

The site of the deadly Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.

Touching mementoes from those who didn't make it back from World War I still hang in one of New York's oldest bars.

What began as an art installation is now the private drinkhaüs for a brewery's employees.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

Disney World's very first waterpark is now an abandoned ruin being reclaimed by the swamp.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

Mansion and shopping center used in the 1975 film "The Stepford Wives."

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

The magic's in the hole!