Places Edited by Brady Santoro

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

A tiny, unmarked beer and whiskey bar above an Ethiopian restaurant in West Philly fails to conceal live bluegrass.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This forgotten building was one of the few Philadelphia-area breweries to survive Prohibition.

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

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.