Places Phantasmagoria Wants to Go

Designed by Calvert Vaux, this former post office now serves as a home for the local arts.

A small town in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, is home to a former world leader in stereoscopic photography.  

Soldiers’ scrawls turned into history’s signatures.

Tour the row, actually a few blocks, where 19th century lumber barons built their grand homes.

Designed by the company that provided water to the entire community.

Originally known as the State Lunatic Hospital at Norristown, this campus stands as a fascinating piece of medical history.

War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.

A neighborhood of houses made of poured concrete through a process invented by Thomas Edison.

This giant, rotating globe was built to celebrate the expansion of a company that makes steam cleaners and pressure washers.

The first burial place of the Harmonist Society, a utopian community for which the surrounding town of Harmony is named.

A treasure trove of material within the University of Pittsburgh Library Systems has spawned the world's first and only center for academic study of the horror genre.

Experience the glamour of vintage rail travel as you journey through the historic Secret Valley. 

A full-service gas station known as the oldest in America.

Slated for demolition in 1962, the historic Pomeroy-Academia Covered Bridge was saved by conservationists.

Tucked into Pittsburgh’s North Side, the Mattress Factory is a labyrinth of permanent, room-sized installations where artists transform entire spaces into mind-bending, immersive worlds.

This is the spot where the bloodiest battle in the American Civil War may have started.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

This riverside restaurant delivers elegant dining in a historic 1901 train depot. 

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.

A museum dedicated to the history of electric interurban transit near the home of the first electric trolley system in the United States.

For more than 25 years, this Philadelphia store has been offering a wide selection of Victorian oddities and antiques.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

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