Places marykate Wants to Go

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

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

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

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

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

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

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

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

This railroad and oil tycoon's lavish estate now stands as a time capsule of the Gilded Age.

For 32 years the famous Ringling Bros circus troupe spent winters in this sunny spot in Florida.

The 44,000-ton aircraft carrier was purposely sunk to create an artificial reef teeming with life.

This Florida resort community is where the Amish come to have fun in the sun.

Former wax museum from the 1960s, home to many wax U.S. Presidents and the famous White House miniature.

This shop also boasts some sweet memorabilia from "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory."

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

A thriving Black community was destroyed by an angry white mob at this site in 1923.

A Florida college boasts the world's largest single-site collection of structures designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.