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

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

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

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and until recently, the largest glass mural in the US.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

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

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "Dismalites" .

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

The world's longest known cave system.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

Memorials and tributes scattered across the university grounds remember a famous national tragedy of the Nixon era.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

The only presidential monument to display a late POTUS's actual casket.