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

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

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.