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.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

Loyal fans of one television's most famous painters still come to pay their respects.

A crumbling stone stable and carriage house are all that remain of a manse that was once filled with Egyptian artifacts.

An 80-year-old house built out of newspapers.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

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

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

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

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

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

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.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

This ancient art form was used to capture the lives and struggles of the Haywood Street ministry.

The lesser-known lost colony of Roanoke was a safe haven for formerly enslaved people during the Civil War.

This tiny chapel next to a highway provides weary travelers a place to rest, pray, or maybe even get married.

This shrine to bovine consumption and all things fast food is a slice of culinary history both rare and well done.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

The walls of America's oldest masonry fort famously "swallowed" cannonballs.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world's largest coastal brick fortresses.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.