The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

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

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

An American flag was erected for every day that passed during the Iranian Hostage Crisis.

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

Color-coded signs direct drivers on a network of routes designed to avoid Pittsburgh traffic.

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

Eclectic collections, artwork, and some feline friends fill the writer's former home.

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

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

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

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

The best Tiki bar in Las Vegas.

An exotic wildlife habitat right off The Strip.

The neon signs from Las Vegas' past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.