This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

Meet your friends, marry your true love, or tell your enemies to kiss your butt under this historic Pittsburgh timepiece.

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

These grassy undulations on a stretch of University of Michigan campus aren't bad landscaping, they're art.

This railway-turned-greenway provides a pedestrian link in downtown Detroit and celebrates urban artwork.

The world's oldest operating jazz club has been in operation since May 1934.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

The bones of an old zoo crumbling in the shadow of a new one.

Turnip-shaped island just off the Michigan shore in Lake Huron.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Abandoned concert venue legendary for its rock counterculture.

Yo, Adrian!

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

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

A collection of 1,300 accordions of all shapes and sizes displayed in chronological order.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

A large circus museum with summer performances.

One of Frank Lloyd Wright's final works was this UFO church.