A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

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

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

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

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

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

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This beautiful stone arch bridge wasn't even expected to stand for one day, but people have been crossing it for centuries.

The bridge's highly-contested plaque (once again) honors Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

Electronic inventions that resulted in products and systems we use every day are on display in this labor-of-love museum.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Meet some of the most prominent figures in Black history through life-sized wax models.