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The oldest of only three existing statues of the great novelist stands in a city he did not care for.

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

The body of St. John Neumann and his collection of hundreds of relics, on display in a Philly church.

A local prank turned town icon.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

Pennsylvania's own Roswell-style UFO mystery.

Instruments, apparatus, and rare books all relating to chemistry and its related sciences.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

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

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

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

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

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.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.