Despite the van driver’s assurance that we’d get stuck in rush hour traffic, I arrived at Pittsburgh International Airport yesterday with plenty of time to poke around before my flight.

Good thing. Because in addition to the free internet access, there really are plenty of reasons to appreciate spending time at this airport.

Here are just five of them:

The dinosaur

The shopping.  Plenty of it – and a shoe store. Enough said

The mobile by Alexander Calder in the center core.  This is a great art treasure to have at the airport.

The shrine to Mr. Rogers, who filmed his long-running running TV show in Pittsburgh.

And, just across the way, a wall covered in Andy Warhol self-portrait wallpaper, along with several pieces of his artwork.

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