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Where the Ducks Walk on the Fish
Linesville, Pennsylvania
At the Pymatuning Reservoir, a place where the fish are so plentiful, the ducks walk across them. At the spillway, hurl bread and watch the action!
Mutter Museum
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A fun medical museum of human pathology, but so dignified that you almost forget that you're looking at skulls, conjoined twins, and a giant colon.
Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine Tour
Ashland, Pennsylvania
Travel by rail a third of a mile into a mountain to experience the dark, chilly world of an anthracite coal mine. The mine closed in 1931; it's been open as an attraction since 1962.
Mercer Museum: Concrete Castle
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Not only a historic gallows, but hundreds of bizarre artifacts -- such as a vampire-killing kit -- exhibited in a castle made of concrete.
Gettysburg Museum of History
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Erik Dorr's personal collection of historic relics includes a bloodstained piece of Hitler's suicide couch, Marilyn Monroe's bra, and JFK's underpants.
Hershey's Chocolate Factory Tour
Hershey, Pennsylvania
The real chocolate factory tour is long gone, replaced by an automated ride, mega-gift store, and a pervasive, consumer-overload-experience of candied goodness.
Creeper Gallery
New Hope, Pennsylvania
Weird Gothic art, eerie antiques, and an entire room of genuinely haunted relics. Owner Donna Marian is there every Sunday.
Mummers Museum
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
A neighborhood museum dedicated to the human party favors -- The Mummers -- who parade through Philadelphia each New Year's Day.
St. John Neumann: Saint In Glass
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Bones of an American saint, laid out wearing his pointy bishop miter and robes. Slivers from his coffin are for sale in the gift shop.
Eastern State Penitentiary Tours
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Old, imposing prison has always been a choice destination for tourists and ghost-hunters.
5,000 Relics in St. Anthony's Chapel
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
World's largest public collection of Catholic relics, holy bodily remains in Pittsburgh's bit o' heaven, a chapel built specifically for their display.
Randyland
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Two multi-story buildings and an adjacent lot have been transformed into a candy-colored playscape by resident artist Randy Gilson.
Trundle Manor - House of Oddities
Swissvale, Pennsylvania
Curated by artists Mr. Arm and Velda von Minx, Trundle Manor exhibits dead things in jars, vintage taxidermy, antique medical devices, weaponry, coffins, sculptures and more.
America on Wheels Museum
Allentown, Pennsylvania
An eclectic collection of cars, trucks, motorcycles, and even a celebrity bicycle.
The Coffee Pot
Bedford, Pennsylvania
Built in the 1920s as a luncheonette, then fell into disrepair. Now it's a civic symbol restored to its Jazz Age glory.
Big Jim: Giant Gunslinger
Bentleyville, Pennsylvania
A gunslinger, 20 feet tall with an impressively long barrel on his six-shooter, defends a motel.
Eerily Lit Steelworks Hulk
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Rusting remnants of the old Bethlehem Steel plant are brought to a strange kind of life with Frankenstein lighting and a convenient casino.
Zippo Lighter Visitors Center
Bradford, Pennsylvania
A well-funded company museum, devoted to an iconic product that's been collectible for longer than most of us have been alive.
World's Largest Hamburgers
Clearfield, Pennsylvania
Denny's Beer Barrel Pub enjoys making burgers bigger than your head, all the way up to the insane 123-pounder.
Night of the Living Dead Cemetery
Evans City, Pennsylvania
The graveyard where the opening scene was filmed from the movie that eventually turned zombies into a pop culture commodity. A zombie fan pilgrimage site.
Pioneer Mom with Scary Child
Frackville, Pennsylvania
Odd statue stood for years next to a restaurant and motel, but was removed in March 2022. Now stands in a downtown empty lot. Repainted in April 2023.
Abe Lincoln Meets Perry Como
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Bronze statues of 19th century Abraham Lincoln and what sure looks like an awestruck 20th century pop singer.
Lincoln Train Museum
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Miniature trains, plus nostalgia and pop culture memorable -- but the real draw here is the opportunity to ride aboard a replica Lincoln Funeral Train with your host: Abe's ghost.
Jennie Wade, Biscuit Martyr: See the Bullet Hole
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
20-year old Jennie Wade was baking biscuits when a stray bullet killed her. Pose with her statue out front, tour the house, stick your finger in the bullet hole. Open since 1906.
Civil War Tails: Miniature Catfight
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Elaborate dioramas are populated by thousands of tiny hand-made cats in Civil War uniforms.
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- Allentown: America on Wheels Museum
- Allentown: Mack Trucks Historical Museum [tips]
- Allenwood: Clyde Peeling's Reptiland
- Allison Park: Fountain of Youth
- Altoona: World's Oldest Roller Coaster [tips]
- Altoona: Castle Halloween Museum [tips]
- Alum Bank: Little Village [tips]
- Ashland: Pioneer Tunnel Coal Mine Tour
- Ashland: Big Mine Run Geyser [tips]
- Bedford: The Coffee Pot
- Bedford: Dick Dunkle's Deco Gas Station [tips]
- Bensalem: Giant Horse Head [tips]
- Bentleyville: Big Jim: Giant Gunslinger
- Bethlehem: Millennium Folk Art Park [tips]
- Bethlehem: Eerily Lit Steelworks Hulk
- Bethlehem: Nittany Lion Bench [tips]
- Bloomsburg: Bill's Old Bike Barn: More Than Bikes [tips]
- Bradford: Zippo Lighter Visitors Center
- Brookville: Message-Rocks Carved by a Madman [tips]
- Centre Hall: Penn's Cave - All-Water [tips]
- Clearfield: World's Largest Hamburgers
- Columbia: National Watch and Clock Museum [tips]
- Columbia: The Turkey Hill Experience [tips]
- Coopersburg: Big Chip, Ice Cream Muffler Man [tips]
- Coudersport: Coudersport Ice Mine [tips]
- Cressona: Lady Diver in a Cage [tips]
- Darlington: Zuverman: World's Largest Bodybuilder [tips]
- Donora: Smog Museum [tips]
- Doylestown: Mercer Museum: Concrete Castle
- Doylestown: Fonthill, Concrete Castle Home
- Doylestown: Ronald Reagan Eats Invisible Potato Pancake
- Eldred: Eldred World War II Museum - Munitions Plant [tips]
- Elizabethtown: House of Oddities and Curious Goods [tips]
- Erie: Mad Anthony Wayne's Kettle of Death
- Erie: Schaefer's Auto Art: VW Bug Spider [tips]
- Evans City: Night of the Living Dead Cemetery
- Frackville: Pioneer Mom with Scary Child
- Gettysburg: Abe Lincoln Meets Perry Como
- Gettysburg: Lincoln Train Museum
- Gettysburg: Jennie Wade, Biscuit Martyr: See the Bullet Hole
- Gettysburg: Gettysburg Museum of History
- Gettysburg: The Gettysburg Cyclorama [tips]
- Gettysburg: Civil War Tails: Miniature Catfight
- Greensburg: Formerly Headless Muffler Man [tips]
- Hallam: Haines Shoe House
- Hamburg: Cabela's: High Temple of Taxidermy
- Hanover: The Electric Map [tips]
- Hanover: Potato Chip Tour, Neon Sign [tips]
- Harrisburg: National Civil War Museum
- Hellertown: Lost River Caverns [tips]
- Hershey: Hershey's Chocolate Factory Tour
- Hershey: AACA Museum and Museum of Bus Transportation
- Homer City: Tallest Smokestack in the U.S. [tips]
- Hopwood: Laurel Caverns - Cave Mini Golf
- Hummelstown: Indian Echo Caverns
- Intercourse: Most Stolen Town Signs
- Jim Thorpe: Old Jail Museum [tips]
- Jim Thorpe: Jim Thorpe's Tourist Attraction Grave [tips]
- Johnstown: Johnstown Flood Museum
- Kecksburg: Space Acorn - 1965 UFO
- Kittanning: Sam: Muffler Man Holding a Hamburger [tips]
- Kutztown: Crystal Cave
- Lake Harmony: The Boulder Field [tips]
- Lakeville: Chainsaw Ice Sculpture Factory and Ice Harvest Museum [tips]
- Lansford: No. 9 Mine and Museum [tips]
- Latrobe: Banana Split Birthplace [tips]
- Lewisberry: Gravity Hill - Ghost Children [tips]
- Ligonier: Story Book Forest [tips]
- Lilly: KKK Kicked Out Monument [tips]
- Linesville: Where the Ducks Walk on the Fish
- Lititz: Julius Sturgis Pretzel Bakery [tips]
- Lower Gwynedd: Stoogeum: Three Stooges Museum [tips]
- Meadville: PennDot Road Sign Sculpture Garden [tips]
- Monroeville: The Living Dead Museum
- Mount Jewett: The Kinzua Viaduct [tips]
- New Hope: Creeper Gallery
- New Oxford: Krampus, Yule Cat, Christmas Witch [tips]
- Nicholson: Tunkhannock Creek Viaduct - Longest Concrete Railroad Bridge [tips]
- North Braddock: Joe Magarac - Steel Bending Worker [tips]
- Northampton: Atlas Cement Memorial Museum
- Nottingham: Herr's Factory Tour [tips]
- Oaks: American Treasure Tour [tips]
- Oaks: Happy Halfwit Muffler Man [tips]
- Philadelphia: Mutter Museum
- Philadelphia: Old Baldy: Horse Hero Head
- Philadelphia: Mummers Museum
- Philadelphia: Walk-Thru Giant Heart
- Philadelphia: St. John Neumann: Saint In Glass
- Philadelphia: Eastern State Penitentiary Tours
- Philadelphia: Giant Ship Hulk - SS United States [tips]
- Philadelphia: Rocky Statue [tips]
- Philadelphia: Magic Garden
- Philadelphia: Olympia - Last Surviving Spanish-American Warship
- Philadelphia: Laurel Hill Cemetery [tips]
- Philadelphia: President McKinley and Nude Boy
- Philadelphia: Bronze Bodies Emerge From Bronze Wall
- Philadelphia: Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania [tips]
- Philadelphia: Peter, Stuffed Eagle of the Mint
- Philadelphia: Enormous Tumor of James Hayes [tips]
- Phoenixville: Movie Theater From The Blob [tips]
- Pittsburgh: Fredosaurus Rex: Mr. Rogers Dinosaur [tips]
- Pittsburgh: 5,000 Relics in St. Anthony's Chapel
- Pittsburgh: Center for PostNatural History
- Pittsburgh: Randyland
- Pittsburgh: 20-Foot-Tall Steelworkers of Iron
- Pittsburgh: U.S.S. Requin, Cold War Sub
- Pittsburgh: Itty-Bitty Western Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh: Dippy the Dinosaur [tips]
- Pittsburgh: Bicycle Heaven Museum [tips]
- Pittsburgh: Keeping Tabs Holocaust Sculpture [tips]
- Pittsburgh: Bayernhof Museum: Music Machines [tips]
- Pottsville: Giant Monument to Loser Henry Clay
- Punxsutawney: Weather Capital of the World
- Punxsutawney: Phil's Burrow: Home of Punxsutawney Phil
- Reading: The Pagoda
- Rockwood: Muffler Man: Uncle Sam [tips]
- Saxonburg: Brooklyn Bridge Replica [tips]
- Scranton: Harry Houdini Museum [tips]
- Scranton: Pirate Ship and TV Show Memorabilia [tips]
- Scranton: Lackawanna Coal Mine Tours
- Scranton: Steamtown
- Sellersville: Giant Barbell [tips]
- Shippensburg: Tiny World
- South Fork: Johnstown Flood National Memorial Visitor Center
- Strasburg: Big Amos, Barefoot Amish Giant
- Strasburg: Red Caboose Motel: World's Largest [tips]
- Swiftwater: Ghost Monkey Candle Shop [tips]
- Swissvale: Trundle Manor - House of Oddities
- Titusville: Drake Well Museum
- Union City: Pink Floyd Yard Art [tips]
- Uniontown: Muffler Man [tips]
- University Park: Stuffed Nittany Lion [tips]
- Upper Black Eddy: Ringing Rocks Park [tips]
- Valley Forge: Founding Fathers in Prayer [tips]
- Warminster: The Human Centrifuge
- West Chester: American Helicopter Museum [tips]
- West Gettysburg: Land of Little Horses Farm Park [tips]
- Wyoming: Queen Esther's Bloody Rock [tips]
- York: USA Weightlifting Hall Of Fame
- Youngstown: Trump House [tips]