Places chrissyml Wants to Go

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

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.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.