Places Riki Wants to Go

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

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

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.

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

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

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

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

The ruined remains of a coal mining ghost town are hidden within the woods.

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

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

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

A clone-tree in Washington Square Park sprung from seeds that went to the Moon and back.

The remains of a community that was forced to move for a dam that never materialized still rot in this Pennsylvania park.

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

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

A mine fire has been burning under the deserted town since 1962, but this church is still going strong.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

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