The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

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

The oldest continually operating golf course in the United States.

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

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

A bronze statue of Mister Rogers in the neighborhood where he grew up.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

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

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.