Places ambentzen Wants to Go

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.

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.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

One of the oldest of its kind.

The Fabric Workshop and Museum showcases fabric and mixed media work by artists of great international renown as well as local and outsider artists.

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

This overlooked courtyard and museum celebrate Benjamin Franklin's life and achievements.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

Walk down an otherwise nondescript alley near Washington Square West in South Philly and find yourself in a vivid, immersive mosaic wonderland.

For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.

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

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

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

Yo, Adrian!

This seemingly out-of-place gas station by the Watergate hotel was once described as the most expensive gas station in the world.

The word "Watergate" will forever be associated with the infamous scandal in 1972, but this fountain is famous in its own right.

Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.