Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Irish Memorial at Penn's Landing
An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.
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Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Nervous System of 'Harriet Cole'
This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Civil War Tails at the Homestead Diorama Museum
A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.
College Township, Pennsylvania
The Armsby Calorimeter
This 19th century machine put animals (including humans) in boxes to study how they metabolized calories.
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Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Gettysburg Dime Museum
This recreation of a 19th-century dime museum is full of oddities.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
Cherry Springs State Park
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
State College, Pennsylvania
Frost Entomological Museum
Penn State's giant bug collection.
