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

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

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

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

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

The massive machine creates cracking displays of indoor lightning.

Millions of numbers carved in glass represent the tattoos forced upon victims.

An easy-to-miss garden in Boston's North End honors the mother of JFK and others who lost children in WWII.

Macabre headstones carved with winged skulls, dancing skeletons, and pithy reminders of impending death.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

A men’s restroom became a sandwich shop.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

Unlike other abandoned asylums this empty institution welcomes visitors, just don't go in the buildings.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

This site commemorates the former inn and restaurant where the chocolate chip cookie was first crafted.

Final resting place of a New Haven urban legend.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

A former major munitions plant that has been converted into a sprawling art space.

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

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.