This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

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

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

Each step is a mere four inches tall, said to be measured by the stride of a woman wearing a hobble skirt.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

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

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

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

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.