Places Talbot von Sregor Wants to Go

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

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

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

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.

The corporeal remains of Napoleon III's dentist rest under this 15-story obelisk.

Find your state fair food favorites all year long.

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

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

This sculpture of a fisherman spent six years at the bottom of the Schuylkill River.

These medicine cabinet staples are part of the museum's collection of everyday objects.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Venture into the past with an unlisted exhibit hall featuring extinct birds.

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