One critic described it as "middle Mussolini, early Ramses, and late Neiman-Marcus." Another called it an architectural "natural disaster."

The 28,000-year-old specimen is remarkably intact.

Go take a picture with the inventor of the daguerreotype photographic process.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

Perhaps the most scandalous statue of America's first president.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

This large stone residence served as a field hospital during the Battle of Gettysburg between stints as a tavern.

This Civil War monument was designed by an eccentric architect and Gettysburg veteran.

This monument marks the beginning journey of a wounded soldier's leg that ended up almost two states away.

The beloved, war-tested mascot of a Union regiment graces their battlefield monument.

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

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

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

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

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

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

A Yiddish theater turned movie house turned rock and roll landmark turned gay disco turned bank.

The former sign of this immortal music venue is just that--undying.

The famed poet was born in 1819 in a farmhouse built by his father.

A century ago, aspiring socialites climbed on this cement beast with the hopes of marrying a millionaire.