Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

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

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

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

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

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.

The Liverpool street made famous by the Beatles is real.

The quiet field that inspired one of the most famous songs of all time.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

The location of one of the first private Catholic schools in the country, providing a valuable sanctuary during the tumultuous period when Protestant and Catholic students were at odds.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

This peaceful Massachusetts graveyard was one of the first "garden-style" cemeteries in America.

Impossibly life-like natural history models created out of glass by a father and son.

This bridge was the birthplace of a unit of measurement based on a fraternity joke.

This nearly endless university hallway is home to a unique sunset known as "MIThenge."

One man's psychedelic fence is painted with his cacophonous folk art musings on the world.