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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Somerset

3 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Somerset, Pennsylvania

Updated December 19, 2023
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Somerset, Pennsylvania

Statue of Jackson the Elephant

In the parking lot of a fast food restaurant, a statue memorializing a prolific bull elephant.

Somerset, Pennsylvania

Jenny Globe

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

Somerset, Pennsylvania

Quecreek Mine Rescue Site

The site where nine miners were trapped underground for over 77 hours in 2002.
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Stoystown, Pennsylvania

Flight 93 National Memorial

Remember and reflect at this 9/11 memorial site.
9 miles from Somerset
Mount Davis

Salisbury, Pennsylvania

Mount Davis

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.
16 miles from Somerset
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Windber, Pennsylvania

Grand Midway Hotel

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.
20 miles from Somerset
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Acme, Pennsylvania

Polymath Park

Sleep in a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home or dine in the treetops in this architecture park.
20 miles from Somerset
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