A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

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

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

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

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

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

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

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

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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 dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

A local prank turned town icon.