Places meltingknight Wants to Go

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.

This Delaware River bridge is emblazoned with a catty slogan from a more prosperous time.

The only statue of its kind to commemorate Washington's beginnings as an officer of the British Colonial Militia.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.

"Where the ducks walk on fish."

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

Where the oil industry began.

The famous bell was secreted away and hidden in a church in Allentown during the British occupation of Philadelphia.

Could it have picked a better place to land?

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

An Irish Memorial commemorating those who perished due to potato blight.

One of the oldest of its kind.

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

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

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

An almost life-sized elephant named Ms. Ellie greets visitors at this jumbo-themed museum.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

This jail which was in service for over a century is now open for curious visitors.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.