Places zamand Wants to Go

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

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

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

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

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

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

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.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

This beloved marketplace mascot poops money and grants good luck.

The world's third-largest crystal sphere has sat in the Penn Museum since 1927 with the exception of one outlandish theft.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

A daily replay of the experiment that proved the rotation of the Earth.

The sounds of the world's largest fully functioning pipe organ dazzle shoppers at a Philadelphia Macy's.

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

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

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

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

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

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

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