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

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

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

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

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

River pirates, murderous bandits, and serial killers used this Illinois cave as their debauched hideout.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

This botanical garden outside Chicago boasts an array of more than 300 varieties of lilacs.

A six-ton, 12-foot-tall concrete prairie dog is touted as the largest in the world.

This holy goods emporium is where priests go for a little retail therapy to outfit their churches.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Statue dedicated to the star of an old television show.

The bugs crawling down the front of this office building are almost as big as a '68 VW Beetle.

An off-the-beaten-path place to literally hang beneath Milwaukee's Holton Street Bridge.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

This house renovated by Frank Lloyd Wright was the centerpiece of a lavish 20th-century estate.