A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

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

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

When oil was discovered just outside of Pittsburgh, the city became home to this regional stock market.

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

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

The former home of silent film star Harry Carry.

A seasonal movie monster museum featuring wax creations by a relative of one of the original Universal Studios monsters.

A jewel of early electric boosterism once again charms Connecticut's historic "Hat City."

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

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

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

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

This small-town pizzeria won the Hollywood lottery.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

Antarctica's only sculpture garden, it has art and penguins, but no plants in sight.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.