Places rivkaarose Wants to Go

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

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

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

These beautiful ruins deep in the Pennsylvania woods are thought to have been a ski lodge or a speakeasy, but no one really knows.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

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

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

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

The Home and murder site of the witch of Rehmeyers Hollow.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

The oldest active church in Pennsylvania is also the second oldest Swedish Church in the United States.

A tragic mystery left this boy nameless for 65 years.