Places hmbaillie Wants to Go

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

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

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

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

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

Eccentric concrete mansion and museum designed and built by hand from the inside out.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

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

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

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.