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

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This 150-year-old train station and caboose have been turned into a railroad museum, enjoyed by young and old alike.

A historic recreation of the golden age of the Erie Canal, abandoned for some time, slowly being restored.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Rhode Island's tallest building bears a resemblance to the "Daily Planet" building and has been empty for more than five years.

Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.

An eccentric priest's tribute to George Washington, this chapel tells the story of the American Revolution.

This historic folk museum celebrates the attention to detail that makes America great.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

The world’s largest underground marble quarry is hiding in Vermont.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

The remains of a deserted 1800s farming community can be found in Little River State Park.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.