Places Melanicholia Wants to Go

The humble field where the first Major League Baseball game was played.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The first American axe throwing club.

Where the oil industry began.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

The aggressively banal name of this underground fortress of bureaucracy does little to evoke its truly surreal existence.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

It marks the spooky spot where the bodies of two young boys were found in the 19th century.

Frank Lloyd Wright built this suburban synagogue late in life, but it stands among his most iconic masterpieces.

The residents of this ominous-sounding street in Pennsylvania liked its name so much they fought to keep it.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.