Places tabzmonroe Wants to Go

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

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

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

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

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

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

A quintet of history museums make this Virginia graveyard as much a resting place for funereal history as it is for people.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

The life of one of FDR's possible mistresses is preserved in her palatial Hudson Valley mansion.

An abandoned dollhouse factory.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

Discovered by cows, these upstate New York show caves are presented with a healthy dose of psychedelic folk art.