Places jen487 Wants to Go

One of the U.S. Forest Service's only mansions is outfitted with a dinner table for floating food.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

This collection honors the iconic, and proudly American lighter that just won't quit.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

This shrine to McDonalds' most iconic sandwich holds a 14-foot tall burger.

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

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

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.

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

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

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

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

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

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

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

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

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

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

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

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

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