Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

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

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

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

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

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

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

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

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

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

The “American Gothic" artist's largest works hang in an Iowa State University library.

A hidden barn-sized rendition of Grant Wood's most famous, and most parodied, painting.

One of the largest trees of its kind in California.

Its columns were all carved from the same white oak tree.

A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.

This former crime corner has been turned into an eclectic community center.

An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.