Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

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

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.

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

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.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Medicinal spa created with the discharge from a geothermal energy plant.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Feeding hungry Ballard boat workers since 1922.

Statue of Lenin, from Cold War era Czechoslovakia, now in a neighborhood of Seattle.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

A brewery warehouse which doubles as a circus bigtop.

The tale of a strong-willed woman who stood her ground when the commercial world came rumbling in.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.