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Accomac: Hatteras Lighthouse Replica
Adamstown: Pennsylvania: Pagan As You Go
Adamstown: Toy Robot Museum
Allentown - Coopersburg: Muffler Man - Happy Halfwit
Allentown: America on Wheels Museum
Allentown: Journey to the Center of the Earth - Vague Recollections
Allenwood: Clyde Peeling's Reptiland
Altoona: Oldest Roller Coaster in America
Altoona: Vietnam Memorial - The Wall That Heals
Amaranth: The Roadkill Cafe
Artemas: Road Kill Cafe
Ashland: Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine and Steam Train
Ashland: Whistler's Mother statue
Ashley: Joe Palooka Monument
Atglen: Roof Crashes
Austin: Austin Dam Burst Site
Bangor: Columcille Megalith Park and Celtic Art Center
Beallsville: Castle Blood
Beallsville: Madonna of the Trail
Beaver Meadows: Junk Sculptures
Beavertown: Davy Jones Museum
Bedford: Coffee Pot-shaped Building
Bedford: Ship Hotel, Noah's Ark - Where the Bell Went
Bentleyville: Big Jim, Metal Cowboy
Bernville: Christmas Village
Berwick: Two-way truck
Bethlehem: Don's Wildlife Museum
Bethlehem: Eerily Lit Steelworks Hulk
Bethlehem: Peeps Factory
Biglerville: National Apple Museum
Bloomsburg: Miniature Village
Bradford: Zippo Lighter Visitors Center
Breinigsville: Peg-leg Pirate Statue
Butler: Store Shaped like a Stealth Bomber
Canonsburg: Perry Como Statue
Canonsburg: Twistee Cone Building
Carlisle: Jugs of Pee Watch
Catawissa: Transmission auto parts man
Centerport: Literal Fork in the Road
Central City: Ship Hotel - Vague Recollections
Centralia: Centralia Mine Fire
Centre Hall: Penn's Cave - All-Water
Chambersburg: Giant Apple Truck
Chambersburg: Old Jail Museum
Chester: First King of Rock and Roll - Bill Haley
Cheswick: Purple Elephant
Christiana: Corn Crib
Clarion: Large Cow Statue
Clearfield: World's Largest Hamburgers
Columbia: Big Cow
Columbia: National Watch and Clock Museum
Columbia: The Turkey Hill Experience
Cook Forest: Yogi Bear and Teepee
Cove Gap: James Buchanan Birthplace Pyramid
Dauphin: Dauphin Narrows Statue of Liberty
Dillsburg: Pickle Man Statue
Donora: Killer Smog Marker
Donora: Smog Museum
Downingtown: Chef's Diner, Spot Where "The Blob" Was Filmed
Doylestown: Fonthill, Concrete Castle Home
Doylestown: Mercer Museum
Doylestown: Miles of Mules
Drexel Hill: Museum of Mourning Art
DuBois: Tom Mix Festival and Museum
Duncannon: Large Purple Dragon
Duncannon: Old Sled Works, Fire Lookout Tower
Eagles Mere: Toboggan ice slide
East Whiteland Township: Mass Grave Of Irishmen
Easton: Crayola Factory
Easton: Large Bicycle - Genesis Bicycles
Edinboro: Angus: Big Bad Bronze Scotsman
Edinboro: Wooden Nickel Buffalo Farm
Eldred: Eldred World War II Museum - Munitions Plant
Elysburg: Mining Museum - Knoebels Amusement Park
Elysburg: World's Largest Baseball Bat
Ephrata: Ephrata Cloister Tour
Erie: Frogs and Other Citywide Sculptures
Erie: Mad Anthony Wayne's Kettle of Death
Erie: Museum of Erie GE History
Erie: Where Mad Anthony Wayne Died
Everett: Elephant Statue
Everett: Giant Quarter
Everett: Ice Cream Sundae-Shaped Building
Eynon: World's Largest Glacial Pothole
Forkesville: Red Grange Museum
Frackville: Pioneer Mom with Scary Child
Franklin: Dairy Queen Apollo Spacecraft
Freeland: Restored Miners' Village
Gettysburg: Actual Coffin Mailbox
Gettysburg: Cyclorama
Gettysburg: Dinosaur bridge
Gettysburg: General Rourke's Nose
Gettysburg: Gettysburg Battlefield
Gettysburg: International Museum of Spiritual Investigations
Gettysburg: Jennie Wade House Museum and Statue
Gettysburg: Soldiers Orphanage with Cellar Dungeon
Gettysburg: Time Warp: Abe Lincoln Meets Perry Como
Gilberton: Chinese wall
Girard: Mule-haunted Gudgeonville Bridge
Greensburg: Giant Packard Car Sculpture
Greensburg: Muffler Man - Football Player
Greensburg: Rural Space Shuttle
Hamburg: Cabela's: High Temple of Taxidermy
Harmony: Harmonist Cemetery
Harrisburg: Crackpot Scheme for a Wild West Museum
Harrisburg: Don't Make the Trip
Harrisburg: Giant Butter Sculptures - Farm Show
Harrisburg: Giant Loaf of Bread - Vague Recollections
Haverford: Haverford College Black Squirrels
Heckschersville: 901 Pub - The Old Airplane Crash Gag
Hellam: Haines Shoe House
Hellertown: Lost River Caverns
Helvetia: Abandoned Town
Hepburnia: Large Trout
Hermitage: Avenue of Flags - 444 Banners of Freedom
Hershey: Boy with the Leaking Boot
Hershey: Chocolate World
Hershey: Museum of Bus Transportation
Hershey: The Hershey Story
Hollidaysburg: Birthplace of the Slinky
Homer City: Tallest Smokestack in the U.S.
Hopwood: 60-Foot-Tall Steel Cross
Hopwood: Laurel Caverns - Cave Mini Golf
Hummelstown: Indian Echo Caverns
Huntingdon Valley: Collection of Found-Object Sculptures
Indiana: Christmas Tree Capital of the World
Indiana: Jimmy Stewart Museum
Indiana: Jimmy Stewart Statue
Intercourse: Most Stolen Town Signs
Jennerstown: Bicycle Built for Two Sculpture
Jennerstown: Praying Mantis Statue
Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk): Asa Packer House Museum - Rich People Detritus
Jim Thorpe: Jim Thorpe's Tourist Attraction Grave
Jim Thorpe: Model Train Display, Jim Thorpe Bobble Heads
Jim Thorpe: Old Jail Museum
Johnstown: Johnstown Flood Graves
Johnstown: Johnstown Flood Museum
Johnstown: Johnstown's Inclined Plane - World's Steepest Vehicular Inclined Plane
Johnstown: Morley's Dog
Johnstown: Morley's Dog
Kecksburg: Space Acorn - 1965 UFO
Kittanning: Muffler Man - Cadet Man
Kutztown: Crystal Cave Park
Lake Ariel: Claws & Paws Zoo
Lancaster: Dutch Wonderland
Lancaster: Replica Ark Of The Covenant
Landsford: No. 9 Mine and Museum
Langhorne: Sesame Place
Lansdale: Smiley Face Water Tower
Levittown: Lady Liberty
Lewis Run - Smethport: Allegheny Arms and Armor Museum
Lewisberry: Gravity Hill - Ghost Children
Ligonier: 25-Ft. Tall Gas Pump
Ligonier: Joe's Bar - Taxidermy Galore

Ligonier: Storybook Forest
Lilly: KKK Kicked Out Monument
Lincoln Highway: Student-Built Lincoln Highway Giants
Linesville: Where the Ducks Walk on the Fish
Lititz: Queen of the Candles
Liverpool: Girty's Notch
Lock Haven: Haunted Heisey Museum
Lower Askam: Concrete City
Lower Gwynedd: Stoogeum - Three Stooges Collection
Macungie: Mack Truck Assembly Operations Tour
Mahanoy City: Statue of Hooded Man on Gallows
Mars: Space Ship in Town Named Mars
Meadville: PennDot Road Sign Sculpture Garden
Mifflintown: Muffler Man missing
Milford: The Columns Museum - Bloody Lincoln Flag
Milford: Tom Quick Indian Killer Monument
Mill Creek: Swigart Antique Car Museum
Mineral Point: America's First Railroad Tunnel
Monroeville: Dawn of the Dead Mall - Zombie Museum
Mount Joy: Brewery Tunnels - Roman Slaves Serve You
Muncy: Hadany Arch - Twisted Steel
Nazareth: Martin Guitar Factory Tour
Nescopeck: Big Rooster
New Alexandria: Cigar Box Guitar Museum
New Castle: Fireworks Companies - Special Show
New Hope: Boomer - Pointy-tailed beast
New Paris: Gravity Hill
Nicholson: Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct - Longest Concrete Railroad Bridge
Norristown: Graves in Disrepair
North Huntingdon: Big Mac Museum Restaurant
Northampton: Atlas Cement Memorial Museum
Nottingham: Herr's Factory Tour
Orrtanna: Mister Ed's Elephant Museum
Paradise: Amazing Maize Maze
Paradise: National Christmas Center
Pen Argyl: Jayne Mansfield's grave
Penndel: Airplane on a Roof
Philadelphia: 3-Way Electrical Plug Sculpture
Philadelphia: Board Game Art Park
Philadelphia: Bunny Village
Philadelphia: Chemical Heritage Museum
Philadelphia: Eastern State Penitentiary Tours
Philadelphia: Edgar Allan Poe House - Hideous Heart
Philadelphia: Giant Glowing Paintbrush
Philadelphia: Giant Ship Hulk - SS United States
Philadelphia: Giant Tastykake Apple Pie
Philadelphia: Heroes of Liberty, Diversity Jellybean Children
Philadelphia: Insectarium
Philadelphia: Larry Fine Mural
Philadelphia: Last Surviving Spanish-American Warship
Philadelphia: Laurel Hill Cemetery
Philadelphia: Lights of Liberty Spectacularama
Philadelphia: Magic Garden
Philadelphia: Mario Lanza Museum
Philadelphia: Mummers Museum
Philadelphia: Mutter Museum
Philadelphia: Old Baldy, Horse Hero Head
Philadelphia: Rocky Statue
Philadelphia: Skeleton of famous circus elephant Bolivar
Philadelphia: St. John Neumann - Saint In Glass Coffin
Philadelphia: Walk-Thru Giant Heart
Philadelphia: William Penn Statue
Philadelphia: World's Largest Clothespin
Phoenixville: Movie Theater From The Blob
Pithole: A Town Named Pithole
Pittsburgh: 20-Foot-Tall Transformer Robot
Pittsburgh: 5,000 Religious Relics at St. Anthony's Chapel
Pittsburgh: Andy Warhol's Stuffed Great Dane
Pittsburgh: Eyeball Seats
Pittsburgh: Flintstone House
Pittsburgh: Forbes Field -Original Home Plate
Pittsburgh: Fredosaurus Rex - Mr. Rogers Dinosaur
Pittsburgh: Gulf Tower Weather Beacon
Pittsburgh: King Arthur's Sword in the Stone
Pittsburgh: Lumpy Mr. Rogers Statue
Pittsburgh: Painted Dinosaurs - Community Art Project
Pittsburgh: ReCARstruction
Pittsburgh: Site of First Gas Station
Pittsburgh: Stephen Foster's Lucky Toes
Pittsburgh: Ten-Story-Tall Pole With People Walking Up It
Pittsburgh: The Three That Got Away
Pittsburgh: Virgin Mary Shrine of South Oakland
Plymouth Meeting: Church on the Mall
Pottsgrove: Ringing Rocks Park
Pottstown: The Cup - Cup-shaped Building
Pottsville: Oldest Brewery in America: Free Beer
Punxsutawney: Gobbler's Knob
Punxsutawney: Groundhog Zoo: Home of Punxsutawney Phil
Punxsutawney: Plywood Groundhog
Punxsutawney: Weather Capital of the World
Quakertown: Giant Barbells
Reading: Anchor from U.S.S. Maine
Reading: Der Distelfink Statue
Reading: The Pagoda
Rockwood: Muffler Man
Ronks: Dutch Haven - Shoo-Fly Pies
Ronks: The Outhouse
Saxonburg: Brooklyn Bridge Replica
Schellsburg: Storyland - Remnants
Schwenksville: Schwenksville Museum Of Nostalgia
Sciota: Eddie's Toy Museum and Store
Scranton: Bust And Ashes Of The Exorcist Priest
Scranton: Harry Houdini Museum
Scranton: Labor Leader Monument
Scranton: Nay Aug Gorge Tree House
Scranton: Pirate Ship
Shanksville: Flight 93 Crash Site Memorial
Sharon: Daffin's Chocolate Kingdom
Shartlesville: Riverboat Saloon - Beached Boat
Shartlesville: Roadside America: The Attraction
Shippensburg: Giant Paint Can
Shippensburg: Tiny World
Shippensburg: Tractor Trailer Sign
Shrewsbury: Hex House
Somerset: Elephant Statue - Breeding Ranch Tribute
Somerset: Globe Tower
Somerset: Quecreek Mine Rescue Memorial
Somewhere: Hitler's Yacht Artifacts
South Fork: Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Spruce Creek: Indian Caverns
St. Marys: Decker Chapel - Tiny Church
St. Michael: Morris Tavern and Wildlife Museum
St. Thomas: St. Thomas Rocket
Strasburg: Barefoot Boy Eats with Pigs
Strasburg: Big Amos, Barefoot Amish Giant
Strasburg: Choo Choo Barn
Strasburg: Fulton Steamboat Inn
Strasburg: Red Caboose Motel
Sunbury: Inflatable Rubber Dam
Swissvale: Trundle Manor - House of Oddities
Tarentum: Tour-Ed Coal Mine and Museum
Titusville: Drake Well Museum
Titusville: Sleep in a Caboose
Tobyhanna: Pocono Ice Harvest
Uniontown: Muffler Man
University Park: Stuffed Nittany Lion
Upper Black Eddy: Ringing Rocks Park
Warminster: The Human Centrifuge
Washington Crossing: Washington's Crossing Reenactment
Waynesboro (near): Site R - Raven Rock - Underground Pentagon
Waynesburg: Rain Day Festival
Wellsboro: Junk Art
Wellsboro: Pennsylvania's Grand Canyon
West Chester: American Helicopter Museum
West Chester: Muffler Man - Vandalized, in storage
West Chester: QVC Studio Tour
West Gettysburg: Land of Little Horses Farm Park
Wilkes Barre: Giant Cow
Williamsport: First Little League Game Statue
Wyoming: Queen Esther's Bloody Rock
York: Factory Tour Capital of the World
York: USA Weightlifting Hall Of Fame

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Altoona: Haunted Wedding Dress - Gone
Bethlehem: Disney Tattoo Guy Tours - Closed
Central City: S.S. Grandview Ship Hotel - Gone
Congruity: World's Only Drive-Thru Strip Club - Closed
Conneaut Lake: Fairyland Forest - Closed
Coudersport: Coudersport Ice Mine
Driftwood: Tom Mix's Outhouse
Easton: Bushkill Park - Haunted Pretzel - Closed
Easton: Easton Museum of PEZ - Gone
Easton: Transparent Woman
Erie: Flying Walleye Fish - Gone
Erie: Marx Toy Museum - Gone
Franklin Center: Franklin Mint Museum - Closed
Gettysburg: Doc Weitzel's Traveling Curiosity Show

Gettysburg: Gettysburg Battle Tower - Gone
Gettysburg: The Electric Map - Closed
Kutztown: Edged Weapons Museum - Gone
Lancaster: Big Amish Statues - Gone
Leola: Amish Sanford and Son - Gone
Lock Haven: Fin, Fur and Feather Wildlife Museum
Oaks: Sloppy Giant with Ill-Fitting Clothes
Oxford: Lemongrove: Forest of Edsels - Closed
Pittsburgh: The Igloo - Retractable Dome - Gone
Reading: Stone Willie - Funeral Home Dead Guy - In Storage
Slippery Rock: Hill Billy Heaven - Gone
Stemlersville: Lumberjack - Vague Recollections

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