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

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

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

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

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

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

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

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

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

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

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

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

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

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

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

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

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

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

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

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

Frank Lloyd Wright's most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

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