Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
Indian Echo Caverns
These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.
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Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.
Kutztown, Pennsylvania
In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
Windber, Pennsylvania
Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.
Pottstown, Pennsylvania
A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.
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.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania
An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Hellam, Pennsylvania
Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Freeport, Illinois
The only place in America where anyone who wants can shovel coal aboard an antique train.
Normal, Illinois
This abandoned 19th century orphanage started as a boarding school for children of Civil War veterans.
Geneva, Illinois
A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.
Chicago, Illinois
A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.
Chicago, Illinois
Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.
Chicago, Illinois
What was once one of the country's largest confectionary plants is now an abandoned ruin, but is still pretty sweet.