Elevated freight railway turned wildly successful urban park.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

A beautiful and abandoned New York subway station from 1904, complete with chandelier.

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

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

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

This campus museum commemorates a national tragedy.

Just outside the Ohio Supreme Court sits a testament to justice.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.

A bronze of the man in all his sinewy glory celebrates his longtime connection to the Ohio city.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

A favorite of Amelia Earhart, ranking among those rare bridges that can be crossed without changing sides of the river.

An office built to look like a giant basket.

Superfans of The Shawshank Redemption can take a driving tour of most of the films real locations.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.