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

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

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

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

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

A sweet symbol marks the place where torturous executions were once carried out.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This statue is dedicated to Grace Sherwood, the last person in Virginia to be convicted of being a witch.

America's first public mental health facility.

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

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

London's last remaining public soapbox site has seen speeches from Karl Marx, Vladmir Lenin, and George Orwell.

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A six-ton wedding present for the King of the Scots.

Macbeth's infamous "Great Birnam Wood."

The most loyal of little dogs, or a Victorian era publicity stunt?

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

Protecting the dead from opportunistic body snatchers.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.