The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

Hidden behind West Philadelphia rowhomes is a haven for migratory and local bird species both ordinary and rare.

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

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

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

Home of the only civilian casualty at the Battle of Gettysburg.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

A self-made museum in Queens, New York continues to display the work of a sculptor known for paving his own way.

A collaborative art project that transformed a neighborhood in NYC's Queens.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

The oldest pastificio in Queens offers visitors fresh noodles and a peek inside the macaroni-making magic.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

A field of nothing but boulders which resembles a giant's gravel driveway.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.