Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

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

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

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

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

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

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

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

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

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

A licentious look into Singapore's past, full of disorderly bric-a-brac and disreputable characters.

Postal archives over 150 years old offer a window into Singapore's culture and tradition.

A historical convent known for taking in bad luck babies left on its doorstep is now an upscale shopping center.

One of the largest Chinese cemeteries outside of China spent years overgrown and forgotten.

This $62 million dollar temple was erected to house one little dental fragment of religious history.