The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

The phrase "the shot heard around the world" was coined after a skirmish at this bridge.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

Utopia and nostalgia mingle at the site of Bronson Alcott's ill-fated agrarian commune.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

These lush botanical gardens employ the most purrfect pest control force.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

Featuring the largest CinemaScope screen in Pennsylvania, this drive-in has entertained moviegoers for more than half a century.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

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

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

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

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

A piece of baseball history is preserved in a Pittsburgh parking lot.

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