Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Foucault Pendulum at the Franklin Institute
A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.
Essington, Pennsylvania
North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Long hidden under grime, the politically radical murals of a little known Yugoslavian master are finally getting their due.
Avella, Pennsylvania
This Pennsylvania cave holds evidence of the oldest known inhabitants of North America.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.
Yeadon, Pennsylvania
America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.
Weatherly, Pennsylvania
This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.
Nanticoke, Pennsylvania
Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.
Cresco, Pennsylvania
These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.
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.