A local prank turned town icon.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

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

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

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

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

Yo, Adrian!

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

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

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

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

World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.