Places phildzielski Wants to Go

When the Austin Dam failed it destroyed much of Austin...and then it failed again.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This Philly cemetery is the eternal home of many famous area residents, including Rocky Balboa's wife.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

This permanent exhibition celebrates the finest of our heartless automatons both real and fictional.

Buildings that dynamite couldn't bring down were abandoned because of bathroom issues.

The last of Philadelphia's wood-paved streets is now a landmark of terrible engineering.

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 little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all 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.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

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

Found art has transformed this Pittsburgh neighborhood into a psychedelic dream.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.