Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Attractions
Unusual landmarks, museums, roadside attractions, and hidden wonders in Philadelphia and the surrounding area. Many tourists visit Philly for its Revolutionary War history or cheesesteaks, but the city also has one of America's oldest prisons (which you can tour) and a bona-fide American saint under glass.
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Matchbox Road Museum
Newfield, New Jersey
Everett Marshall III's personal collection of over 60,000 Matchbox cars and trucks. Even though they're tiny, they overflow the museum designed to hold them all.
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.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
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.
Nitro Girl: Uniroyal SuperGal
Blackwood, New Jersey
Ready to fight for truth, justice, and nitrogen-filled tires, Nitro Girl is a unique superhero Uniroyal Gal.
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.
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.
In and Around Philadelphia
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Pennsylvania attractions.
- Philadelphia: St. John Neumann: Saint In Glass
- Philadelphia: Eastern State Penitentiary Tours
- Philadelphia: Grumman Greenhouse
- New Hope: Creeper Gallery
- Doylestown: Mercer Museum: Concrete Castle
- Newfield: Matchbox Road Museum
- Newfield: Matchbox Road Museum
- Blackwood: Nitro Girl: Uniroyal SuperGal
- Vineland: Palace of Depression
- Philadelphia: President McKinley and Nude Boy
- Philadelphia: Masonic Library and Museum of Pennsylvania [tips]
- Philadelphia: Bronze Bodies Emerge From Bronze Wall
- Philadelphia: Mutter Museum
- Philadelphia: Magic Garden [tips]
- Philadelphia: Walk-Thru Giant Heart
- Philadelphia: Enormous Tumor of James Hayes [tips]
- Philadelphia: Peter, Stuffed Eagle of the Mint
- Philadelphia: Rocky Statue [tips]
- Philadelphia: Olympia - Last Surviving Spanish-American Warship
- Philadelphia: Mummers Museum
- Camden: Battleship New Jersey [tips]
