Milford, Pennsylvania
Grey Towers
One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.
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Milford, Pennsylvania
One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.
Cooksburg, Pennsylvania
Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
Oaks, Pennsylvania
Once on display alongside a giant Gumby, it’s as tall as a nine-story building when fully extended.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
Flourtown, Pennsylvania
This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Orange, Connecticut
The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.
Bridgeport, Connecticut
The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.
South Salem, New York
Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.
South Hero, Vermont
A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.
South Hero, Vermont
Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.
Mansfield, Connecticut
An artificial tree in the University of Connecticut greenhouses holds a collection of orchids, mosses, and other tropical epiphytic plants.
Wilton, Connecticut
American artist J. Alden Weir purchased this 60-acre estate for $10 and a painting.
Stratford, Connecticut
A humble air museum located in an original World War II aircraft factory.
Rocky Hill, Connecticut
Now home to hardy plants, these sand and gravel dunes once held back a massive prehistoric lake.