The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

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

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

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

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

An ideal wedding spot that is almost too ideal.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.

A local prank turned town icon.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

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

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and was later converted into a cocktail bar.

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

Where America's first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.