Pennsylvania
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Featured Attractions
The Human Centrifuge
Warminster, Pennsylvania
Once on a secret base, now a tourist attraction! The sphere that could turn America's space men into mush.
Where Mad Anthony Wayne Died
Erie, Pennsylvania
Buried. Boiled. Reburied. Revolutionary War general's replica death blockhouse.
Mercer Museum: Historic Gallows
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Also hundreds of bizarre, old artifacts -- such as a vampire-killing kit -- exhibited in a castle made of concrete.
Drake Well Museum
Titusville, Pennsylvania
Where Edwin Drake sparked America's first oil boom -- in Pennsylvania?
Weather Capital of the World
Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
Even if you miss Phil the Groundhog's prognostication, there are things to see in Punxsutawney. Like Phil.
World's Largest Burgers
Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Denny's Beer Barrel Pub enjoys making burgers bigger than your head, all the way up to the insane 123-pounder.
Insectarium
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pet a hissing cockroach and skeeve at a Model Infested Kitchen.
Big Mac Museum
North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania
Near its birthplace, McDonald's remembers their first megaburger with a museum and a statue.
Quecreek Mine Rescue Memorial
Somerset, Pennsylvania
In July 2002, nine men lived in Somerset, Pennsylvania.
Crayola Factory and Hall of Fame
Easton, Pennsylvania
Breathe in the warm, waxy scent of new crayons in this replica factory tour and crayon education center.
Mutter Museum
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
World class collection of medical oddities for your thoughtful perusal.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Adamstown: Toy Robot Museum
- Allenwood: Clyde Peeling's Reptiland
- Altoona: Haunted Wedding Dress [tips]
- Altoona: Wall That Heals Replica [tips]
- Archbald: World's Largest Glacial Pothole [tips]
- Ashland: Anthracite Museum [tips]
- Ashland: Mother Monument
- Bedford: Coffee Pot-shaped building
- Bradford: Zippo/Case Visitors Center
- Centralia: Town Atop a Mine Fire
- Clearfield: World's Largest Burgers
- Congruity: World's Only Drive-Thru Strip Club
- Coudersport: Ice Mine [tips]
- Doylestown: Mercer Museum
- Easton: Crayola Factory
- Easton: Museum of Pez [tips]
- Eckley: Restored Miners' Village [tips]
- Erie: "Mad" Anthony Kettle of Death
- Erie: "Mad" Anthony Burial Blockhouse
- Fonthill: Concrete Castle [tips]
- Frackville: Pioneer Woman
- Hamburg: Cabela's - High Temple of Taxidermy
- Hellam: Shoe House
- Hellerton: Lost River Caverns [tips]
- Hershey: Chocolate World [tips]
- Hershey: Indian Echo Caverns [tips]
- Hopwood: Laurel Caverns
- Indiana: Jimmy Stewart statue
- Indiana: Jimmy Stewart Museum [tips]
- Intercourse: Most Stolen Town Sign
- Jim Thorpe: Jim Thorpe's Grave [tips]
- Jim Thorpe: The Old Jail [tips]
- Kecksburg: The Space Acorn
- Kutztown: Crystal Cave Park
- Lancaster: Big Amish Statues
- Ligonier: Storybook Forest [tips]
- Linesville: Where the Ducks Walk on The Fish
- Mars: Spaceship in Town Named Mars
- New Paris: Gravity Hill [tips]
- North Huntingdon: Big Mac Museum
- Orrtanna: Mr. Ed's Elephant Museum
- Pen Argyl: Jayne Mansfield's Grave
- Philadelphia: Eastern State Penitentiary
- Philadelphia: Insectarium
- Philadelphia: Mummer's Museum
- Philadelphia: Museum of Mourning Art
- Philadelphia: Mutter Museum
- Philadelphia: Saint Displayed in a Glass Altar
- Philadelphia: Walk-Thru Heart, Franklin Institute
- Phoenixville: Blobfest [tips]
- Pithole: Vanished Oil Boom City
- Pittsburgh: 5,000 Religious Relics [tips]
- Pittsburgh: Stephen Foster's Lucky Toe
- Punxsutawney: Weather Capital of the World and Gobbler's Knob and Phil the Groundhog
- Reading: Anchor from USS Maine [tips]
- Reading: The Pagoda [tips]
- Schellsburg: Storyland, Pied Piper
- Scranton: Houdini Museum [tips]
- Somerset: Quecreek Miner Rescue Memorial [tips]
- Shartlesville: Roadside America
- Shippensburg: Giant Paint Can [tips]
- Shippensburg: Tiny World
- Strasburg: "Amos" the big Amish man [tips]
- Strasburg: Choo-Choo Barn [tips]
- Strasburg: Red Caboose Motel [tips]
- Titusville: Drake Well Museum [tips]
- Warminster: The Human Centrifuge
- West Chester: QVC Studio Tour
- York: Weightlifting Hall of Fame
