This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

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

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A midcentury ranch house hides a literal treasure trove of unique rocks and minerals.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.