Places phildzielski Wants to Go

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Nancy Thompson's Home from "A Nightmare on Elm Street."

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Everyone remembers Laurie Strode from Halloween, but this is the house where most of the blood was shed.

A larger-than-life statue of America's favorite sundae marks the place it was invented.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

Contrary to what one might expect, ice forms inside this small cavern during the summer and melts during the winter.

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.

This lush forest valley was once mined for lumber to the extent that it was once nicknamed "The Pennsylvania Desert."

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

Ant sculptures march up the side of what used to be an iconic spot in punk rock lore.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

One of the oldest log cabins in America is one of the last of its kind this historic Swedish dwelling remains a piece of living history.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

This titanic java kettle is one of the many kitschy landmarks located along America's OTHER famous highway.