Places rubysage Wants to Go

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

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

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

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

This palatial botanical garden is home to one of the largest pipe organs ever installed in a private residence, and a piece of Wood's cycad.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

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

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

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

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

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

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

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.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

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

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

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

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

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.