Soviet intelligence had a keen interest in the Cold War linguistic school at this old Scottish airfield.

This sculpture commemorates Edinburgh's sister city and their respective celebrity dogs.

This vintage gem is one of the oldest surviving purpose-built movie palaces in Scotland.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

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

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

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

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

An effigy of Vancouver's Gastown neighorhood's namesake.

Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.

An abandoned logging settlement nestled in the woods near a popular ski town.

An old world fairytale-land with over 350 fairy folk figurines hidden amongst 800 year old cedars.

The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

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

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.