Once called the "Polish Gold Coast" it is an icon of the neighborhood that bears its same name.

"No writer ever gave more to a city and got back less.”

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

Huge abstract sculptures of the Puerto Rican Flag.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."

Eternal resting place of the grave robber and murderer who served as inspiration for many of cinema’s famous madmen.

An antique cemetery in New York, this land is home to any number of famed corpses.

One of the largest festivals of flowers in North America takes place, appropriately, in the Flower City.

Rochester's signature culinary delicacy.

The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

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

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

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.

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

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

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

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

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

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

The former house of an anthropologist couple displays Lacandón Maya artifacts in a homey atmosphere.

In this breathtaking canyon, crocodiles bask on boulders and glide through the murky waters.