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All the United States Pennsylvania New Hope

The Atlas Obscura Guide To New Hope

3 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in New Hope, Pennsylvania

Updated February 13, 2018

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Place where you should stop to hear the ghosts

New Hope, Pennsylvania

Van Sant Crybaby Bridge

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.
Bowman’s Hill Tower

New Hope, Pennsylvania

Bowman's Hill Tower

This stone tower marks a lookout point over the historic Washington Crossing, and maybe some buried treasure.
Boomer.

New Hope, Pennsylvania

Boomer

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

Stockton, New Jersey

Green Sergeant's Covered Bridge

New Jersey's last historic covered bridge was rebuilt from pieces of the original 19th-century structure.
5 miles from New Hope
The Octagonal Schoolhouse was built with local fieldstones and its current roof of hand-hewn cedar shingles is historically accurate.

Newtown, Pennsylvania

Wrightstown Schoolhouse

This 1802 building is the last remaining octagonal schoolhouse in Bucks County.
8 miles from New Hope
Grave of Levi Doan, “An Outlaw”

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Doan Outlaw Graves

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.
8 miles from New Hope

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

Vampa: Vampire & Paranormal Museum

An extraordinary collection of vampire-themed antiques lurks on the second floor of a store.
8 miles from New Hope
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