Places afink Wants to Go

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

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

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.

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

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

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

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

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

One of the oldest of its kind.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

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

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.