Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

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

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

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.