World's first "penitentiary," meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A collection of Witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

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

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

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

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

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

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.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

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

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.