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

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

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

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

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

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

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

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

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

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

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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