Places empace Wants to Go

The Pennsylvania shopping center was once the setting for the 1978 film, "Dawn of the Dead."

The last funhouse of its kind, where guests enter through the mouth of an 80-year-old blue whale.

This extraordinary model train layout covers over 1,700 square feet, with multiple trains running simultaneously.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

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

An otherwise quiet campground becomes a bustling medieval town for two weeks every year.

Home to an eclectic collection of over 200 vintage motorcycles, Americana, and some of the most extraordinary antiques from all around the world.

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

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

A local prank turned town icon.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

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

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

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

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

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

Once home to seven different roller coasters, Glen Echo has undergone many transformations since its founding in 1891.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A girls' boarding school inspired by the Chicago World's Fair, once abandoned, now restored to strange and scenic glory.

This lifelike sculpture of a policeman serves as a helpful reminder to watch out for crossing pedestrians.