Pittsburgh

Seven floors in a former North Shore warehouse tracing the career of the Pittsburgh-born artist, from student drawings and Campbell's soup cans to the floating Silver Clouds and a hands-on screen-printing studio.

💡 Start on the top floor and work your way down in chronological order. The museum is closed on Tuesdays and stays open later on Fridays. Tickets are booked online for a fixed time. Price: $25, about €22; $13, about €11, for ages 3 to 18, students and seniors.

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Red wooden cars of 1877 climbing the cliff to Grandview Avenue, whose overlooks take in downtown, the three rivers and the bridges crossing at the point, the view that made Pittsburgh famous.

💡 Go up at sunset then stay for the lights, and walk back along Grandview Avenue to the second funicular, the Monongahela Incline of 1870, to head down to Station Square. Payment is in cash or with a transit card, not by bank card. Price: $2.75 one way, about €2.40; $1.35 for ages 6 to 11.

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The University of Pittsburgh's 163-metre neo-Gothic tower, with a vaulted four-storey Commons Room and some thirty Nationality Rooms, classrooms decorated by immigrant communities in the style of their homelands.

💡 The Commons Room is free to visit. The Nationality Rooms can be seen on a guided tour or on a self-guided visit with an access card, booked through the university, outside class hours; an official audio app serves as a guide. In December, each room is decorated for the holidays of its country. Price: Commons Room free; Nationality Rooms $10, about €9, $6 up to age 18.

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Two museums under one roof in Oakland, with one of the world's great dinosaur collections, including Diplodocus carnegii, plus Impressionists and a hall of full-size plaster casts of European facades.

💡 A single ticket gives access to both museums: allow a day, or come after 3pm on a weekday for a reduced rate. The museums are closed on Tuesdays from September to the end of May. Price: $25, about €22; $15, about €13, for ages 3 to 18 and students.

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A Victorian glass and iron conservatory opened in 1893 at the entrance to Schenley Park, with around fifteen rooms of palms, rainforest, desert and orchids, and Dale Chihuly glass sculptures.

💡 Open daily from 9.30am to 5pm, until 10pm on Fridays, a lovely evening when the glasshouses are lit. Combine it with the Carnegie museums and the Cathedral of Learning, ten minutes' walk away, and a stroll in Schenley Park. Price: $22.95, about €20; $13.95, about €12, for ages 2 to 18.

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Frank Lloyd Wright's weekend house for the Kaufmann family, built over a waterfall on Bear Run in the Laurel Highlands, still furnished as they left it and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

💡 The one-hour guided tour of the interior is booked online, several weeks ahead in summer and October; the site is closed on Wednesdays, and children under 6 are not admitted into the house. Combine it with Kentuck Knob, another Wright house 11 km away, and Ohiopyle park. Price: $42, about €36, plus 6% fees; $18, about €15, for access to the grounds only.

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