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Historic town settled in the 19th century because of its convenient location along a popular coal transport route.

How this Pine Barrens hill got its name is uncertain, but on a good day the view from the fire tower is crystal clear.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The remains of an old sawmill, gristmill and the surrounding industry dating back to the 18th century.

This Great Depression-era creation was once known as the strangest house in the world.

An approximately 500 million-year-old rock outcropping covered in fossilized bacteria.

A giant scrap metal troll rests his hands on top of a dilapidated building covered in graffiti.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

Old neon signs from the City of Brotherly Love provide a snapshot of the city’s evolution.

Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

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

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

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

The lost town of Neversink, sunk by New York City.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

A peaceful international sculpture garden in upstate New York.