Austin, Pennsylvania
Austin Dam
When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.
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Austin, Pennsylvania
When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.
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.
Bangor, Pennsylvania
This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.
Reading, Pennsylvania
A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.
Ohiopyle, Pennsylvania
The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.
Reading, Pennsylvania
This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.
Allenwood, Pennsylvania
Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.
Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
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.
Latrobe, Pennsylvania
The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.
Windber, Pennsylvania
Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.
Wexford, Pennsylvania
A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Upper Black Eddy, Pennsylvania
Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.
New Castle, Pennsylvania
This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.