Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Frick Park Clay Courts
This historic Pittsburgh tennis complex is a rare example of natural red clay courts.
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This historic Pittsburgh tennis complex is a rare example of natural red clay courts.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.
West Mifflin, Pennsylvania
The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Originally a cemetery, this city park remains speckled with a handful of scattered gravestones.
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.
Indiana, Pennsylvania
The hometown of movie legend, military officer and All-American guy next door, honors this great actor.
Queens, New York
A once crucial portion of the Long Island railroad still lays abandoned, waiting to be turned into an urban park.
Exeter, England
Old Tudor home moved on thick iron rails to a new spot.
Exeter, England
At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.
Newton Abbot, England
Legend says these rocks used to be hunting dogs, a story that may have inspired Sherlock Holmes' most famous case.
Newton Abbot, England
The legend says that this English rock formation was once a hunter who was turned to stone by annoyed witches.
Yelverton, England
This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.
Postbridge, England
This ancient stone bridge dates back to the early Middle Ages.
New York, New York
Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Hoboken, New Jersey
A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.
Savannah, Georgia
The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.
Savannah, Georgia
"X" marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.
Savannah, Georgia
An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.
Queens, New York
The remnants of two World's Fairs are here, complete with a 12-story globe, a mini-Manhattan, and a UFO-shaped pavilion.
Queens, New York
The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.
Queens, New York
Where the four original members of the Ramones hung out and revolutionized punk rock.
Queens, New York
A retired subway car stands alone in a field in the middle of Queens.
Queens, New York
A young woman's senseless murder led to the controversial psychological theory of the "bystander effect."