Places ashuryn Wants to Go

One of Philadelphia's largest murals resides hidden under this bridge.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

The oldest surviving presidential residence in the United States.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

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

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

Century-old shop, specializing in Occult products.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

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

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.

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.