This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Current docking place of the SS United States, the fastest transatlantic ocean liner.

Behold the rickety wooden glory of the world's oldest operating roller coaster.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

A local prank turned town icon.

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

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

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

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

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

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

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

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

Pennsylvanian mass grave and possibly mass murder.

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

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

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

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

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