Places hopemch Wants to Go

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The oldest farmer's market in America is so ancient it was approved by the King of England.

The only way to see Pittsburgh is from the top of this lookout point, just like the ancient members of the native peoples did.

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

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

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

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

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.