Behold the rickety wooden glory of the world's oldest operating roller coaster.

Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.

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

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

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

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

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

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

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

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

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.