Places agilberthughes Wants to Go

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

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

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

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

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

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

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

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

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.