Places hopemch Wants to Go

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

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

This abandoned Poconos resort is haunted by a history of kitschy romance and a violent fugitive.

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

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

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

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

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

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

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

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.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

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

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

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

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

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

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.