In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

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

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

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

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

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

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

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

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.