Places Melodia Wants to Go

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

This recycled wax museum may be the only one that features John Travolta in a Bible scene.

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

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

Solving a 60-year mystery finally gave a name to the young woman known only by the color of her clothes.

Landmark dedicated to the plight of the American Indian in the 21st century.

One of the few places where you can explore a 1918 paddlewheel steamboat from stem to stern.

Behold the rickety glory of one of the oldest roller coasters still standing.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

This tiny museum kept in a B&B laundry room holds the death mask of notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

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

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."

North America’s largest collection of horological devices and home to a colossal clock with a dizzying array of features.

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

A local prank turned town icon.

This museum boasts a bucket of teeth and tells the tale of a 20th-century dental circus.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

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

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

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.