Places victorialhthompson Wants to Go

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

Not even a series of devastating fires could keep this odd castle in upstate New York from bouncing back.

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

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.

A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.

This museum pays homage to a device that precipitated a watershed moment in Finger Lakes food production.

This non-binary preacher formed a religious movement in the region of New York later known as the “Burned-Over District.”

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

A small triangle of DC grass is the final resting place of one of Sonny and Cher's songs.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.