Kutztown, Pennsylvania
Crystal Cave
In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.
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Kutztown, Pennsylvania
In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.
Hummelstown, Pennsylvania
These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.
Monroeville, Pennsylvania
This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.
Coudersport, Pennsylvania
"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.
Spring Mills, Pennsylvania
Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.
Aristes, Pennsylvania
A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.
Rochester, New York
An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.
Rochester, New York
The Fox Sisters, America's leading mediums in the mid-19th century, possessed a table they claimed helped them "communicate" with the dead.
Seneca Falls, New York
This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.
Cincinnati, Ohio
This magnificent Cincinnati graveyard is also a popular public park.
East Cleveland, Ohio
This lovely university observatory continues to sit abandoned since its potential savior was sent to jail for fraud.
Cleveland, Ohio
This retired stagecoach tavern is the oldest building in Cleveland.
Cleveland, Ohio
The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.
Cleveland, Ohio
The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.
Cleveland, Ohio
Funded by John D. Rockefeller, this is one of the earliest, and most beautiful, shopping arcades in America.
Cleveland, Ohio
Medical history museum featuring a lovely doctor's office from the 1800s.
Sutton, Massachusetts
This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.
Salem, New Hampshire
America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.
Hudson, New Hampshire
A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.