Places Added by Virginia Brown

Experience the glamour of vintage rail travel as you journey through the historic Secret Valley. 

This unusual rock formation in Berks County is nearly a mile long and may date from the Ice Age.

Decorative folk arts dot the countryside barns of Berks County. 

Experience life in Colonial times at an Amish pioneer’s historic homestead in Berks County.

Nature adventures await along this 1.2-mile scenic trail in a national wildlife refuge.

This historic estate was home to a girls’ seminary before housing Meadville’s first mayor.

A small town in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, is home to a former world leader in stereoscopic photography.  

This brewery infuses its beers and food with maple from a generations-old family farm. 

Discover these whole-house works of art in Pittsburgh’s Troy Hill neighborhood.

Tucked into Pittsburgh’s North Side, the Mattress Factory is a labyrinth of permanent, room-sized installations where artists transform entire spaces into mind-bending, immersive worlds.

This riverside restaurant delivers elegant dining in a historic 1901 train depot. 

One couple’s bespoke castle is one of Pittsburgh's most fashionable dining spots. 

This state park in Schuylkill County, is popular for fishing, hiking, and a paved loop around a stunning 52-acre lake.

This oldest brewery in the U.S. has lived through fire, Prohibition, and six generations of family ownership.

Explore the great outdoors in this popular eastern Pennsylvania park.

Take a ride inside a former coal mine in Ashland, Pennsylvania.

This Pennsylvania structure, the oldest building in Gettysburg, was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Feel what it would have been like to live in Gettysburg during the pivotal Civil War battle.

Travel back in time aboard a restored 1950s-era railcar.

Experience the pivotal Civil War battle at this interactive museum.

This hillside mushroom farm shares land with a Buddhist monastery.

Measuring 100-feet tall, the Gennett Poplar is the second-tallest tree in Georgia.

Soak in the life’s work of one of the country’s foremost modern artists.

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.