When oil was discovered just outside of Pittsburgh, the city became home to this regional stock market.

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

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

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

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

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!

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

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

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

The headquarters of one of the world’s longest-running humor magazines bears a noticeable resemblance to a head wearing a Prussian helmet.

One of America's most historic homes also holds a startling literary legacy.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This tiny, painted door at the base of a tree stump has been a fixture of the Harvard University campus for decades.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

This "life-size" depiction of Mickey Mouse as a half-lobster is both whimsical and a bit creepy, standing guard over the Boston waterfront.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

On a former island, this old fortification once used to protect the Boston Area and started Edgar Allan Poe in his military career.