Places MonValleyMan Wants to Go

A train station that was abandoned by the coal industry and converted into a cocktail bar. Now it’s home to the local visitor bureau.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

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

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

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

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

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

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

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

Once the most painted on object in the world, this short campus fence is well on its way to being so again.

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

This picturesque stream was up until recently the site of a ten story mountain of slag and sewage.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

This secluded walking trail is a hidden gem of a Pittsburgh park.

The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.