An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

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

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

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

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.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This large cemetery is known as the museum of granite sculptures.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

The Vermont square that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery."

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