Places shbtlr Wants to Go

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

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

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

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

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

A tour de force of a fountain, memorializing a man who loved fountains more than anything else.

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

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

A curious building honoring past and current members of a historic musical comedy troupe.

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

Step into a pastel time capsule where candy is truly dandy.

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

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

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

A rare view of a preserved Victorian science museum.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

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

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

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.