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Surrounded by industrial sprawl, a small monument marks the site of William Penn's first landing in Pennsylvania.

This tiny cottage surrounded by railroads is the oldest surviving structure in Fairmount Park.

Antiques and recycled art surround this cabin designed to resemble a 19th-century schoolhouse.

Originally a cemetery, this city park remains speckled with a handful of scattered gravestones.

Where the famed frontiersman was born, raised, and survived Quaker intrigue

This decommissioned surface-to-surface missile resides outside the American Legion Post in Pennslyvania.

This 19th century machine put animals (including humans) in boxes to study how they metabolized calories.

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

The oldest continually operating golf course in the United States.

Visitors to Salt Springs State Park are encouraged to literally put their two cents in Penny Rock.

Francis Julius LeMoyne built this crematory in 1876; he was the third person to be cremated here.

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.

The slate extracted from these Pennsylvania quarries was once hailed as the finest in the world.

A "house to which to flee" for settlers in colonial Pennsylvania.

True to his word, George Swanson is buried in his white 1984 Corvette.

An ode to filmmaker George A. Romero, who used the mall to film an iconic horror movie.

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

An unusual and eclectic collection of local historical memorabilia.

The god of wine stares out at passersby on this busy Pittsburgh thoroughfare.

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

This massive sycamore tree has been labeled as one of the largest in the state.

A small granite block at this monument's base is the only part of Lincoln's Tomb outside of Illinois.

The last remnants of Fort Pitt also hold the distinction of being the oldest structure west of the Allegheny Mountains.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.