Places arianalbear Wants to Go

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

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

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

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

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

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

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

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

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

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

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

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

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

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.