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

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

Mausoleums, astronomy, and animatronic dinosaurs at this memorial to an assassinated American president.

The 25th President's marble casket can be visited in this classical Ohio tomb.

This burger joint is named after everyone's favorite carnival prize and is adorned with a giant one over the door.

Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Unique collection containing a wide and curious range of contraceptive items.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

Cleveland's giant "free" stamp is a nod to the Civil War, but was misinterpreted for years.

World's largest Christmas store.

Controversial tribute to the heavyweight champion boxer who grew up in Detroit.

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

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.