Places Tansy Wants to Go

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

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

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

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

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

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

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

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

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.

Journey through vintage Americana inside this small Massachusetts shop.

Ornate and macabre headstone in one of the country's oldest cemeteries.

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.

This cemetery served as the only official burial grounds in Cambridge for nearly 200 years.

One man’s hobby is another man’s world of metal wonders.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A New England ghost town features a trail of boulders etched with intriguing life lessons.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.