Places vondauber Wants to Go

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

A glittering Thai Buddhist temple in suburban Pennsylvania.

Erected in 1697 this Philadelphia bridge is the oldest surviving roadway bridge and perhaps the oldest stone bridge in the United States.

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

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

One artist's love letter to his city and its citizens plays out across dozens of bright murals painted on the sides of decrepit buildings.

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

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

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

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This stave church nestled in the Catskills was built in the 1960s by a community of Ukrainian immigrants and refugees.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

A small window was installed in this gravestone to honor a young boy's dying wish.

A 13,000-year-old mastodon skeleton was found during the construction of a 19th-century New York mill.

The final resting place of President Chester A. Arthur and hundreds of others from Revolutionary War soldiers to poets, politicians, and painters.

This elaborate High Victorian Gothic structure is one of the world's few 16-sided buildings.

For a buck, students can snag freshly picked apples grown in the university orchards.