Places exploringwithesch Wants to Go

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

The internal railway of one of the biggest steel plants in America has been transformed into a linear park with unique industrial views.

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.

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

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

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

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

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 train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

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

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

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

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

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

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

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

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