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This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

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

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

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

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

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

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

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

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

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

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

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

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

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

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

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

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

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

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.

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