An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

An abandoned railroad tunnel transformed into a creepy path for hikers and cyclists.

The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

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

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

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

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

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

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

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

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

After giving up Michelin glamour for his Amish faith, one chef now makes stellar sausages in a small, off-the-grid shop.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

These public toilets were used as a dead drop by pro-Soviet spies to trade British military secrets during the Cold War.