A memorial to the first person killed by a motor vehicle in the Western Hemisphere.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

This charming English house was once the home of England's most famous poet.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

The first piece of public art dedicated to LGBT rights.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

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.

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

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

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

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

The comedy and tragedy of Oscar Wilde is preserved in a Dublin park, captured in a sculpture of colorful stone.

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

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The famous author's cottage hideaway.

Dedicated to preserving the history of free Black communities in Brooklyn and beyond.