Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

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

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

An unusual library of dead things at the Rhode Island School of Design.

An architectural statement of artistic intent smack in the middle of Providence, Rhode Island's Colonial uniformity.

A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

A spooky and decrepit mental health facility is slowly being replaced with newer digs.

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

This railroad tunnel was once the longest in Massachusetts.

The Burnside Fountain and its questionable interpretation.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

Palatial mansion estate used in films including "Flowers in the Attic" and "The Witches of Eastwick."

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

The only remaining place where you can play this century-old game for cash.

From economic backbone of a community to deadly diving hole, these former stone quarries are now a park for rock climbers and graffiti artists.

"Mock all and sundry things, but leave the saints alone."

The site where Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of "A Christmas Carol" in the US.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."