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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.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

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

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

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

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

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

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

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

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

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

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

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

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