A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

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

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

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

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

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

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

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

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

An eclectic trailer park retreat in the middle of the California desert.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

The United States Capitol's former columns still stand.