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On the outskirts of Pennsylvania’s capital city, a reminder of the worst accident in U.S. commercial nuclear power plant history.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

Construction uncovered this trove of fossils, which visitors are welcome to add to their own collections.

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

Metal monsters made from repurposed materials lurk alongside this Pennsylvania road.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

In this cemetery stands the country's first public crematorium.

These hooded graves are the only of their kind in the United States.

Penn State's giant bug collection.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

Nothing says indulgence like a 1,500-pound chocolate castle.

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

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

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

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

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

An abandoned railroad tunnel transformed into a creepy path for hikers and cyclists.