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

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

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

NYC's legendary underground network for bovine transportation.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

Walk over a 150 year old manhole.

This curved Manhattan building was built to house the opulence of John D. Rockefeller's oil empire.

Built hundreds of years ago this downtown iron barrier once protected a much despised king.

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

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

Narrowest house in Boston.

A strangely forgotten claimant to the much contested title of "Source of the Nile."

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The first life claimed by this record-breaking peak wasn't lost to exposure or a fall but rather lightning.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

Hollywood's oldest hotel is the site of the first Academy Awards, the birthplace of Marilyn Monroe's career, and the home of Montgomery Clift's ghost.

Instead of hoofing it up steep stairs, residents can hitch a ride on this private lift.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

A repository of Pasadena history.