The inventor of a number of hybrid corn species is immortalized with a field of giant corn.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

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

The penultimate and final resting places of British General Edward Braddock—minus a few bits and pieces.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.

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

The souvenir got the company’s founder out of a pretty pickle at the World’s Fair.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

This spot memorializes one of the greatest plays in NFL history, unless you happen to be a Raiders fan.

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

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

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

This Civil War monument was designed by an eccentric architect and Gettysburg veteran.