A small chapel celebrating the spiritual bond between dogs and humans.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

The headquarters of the Fraternitas Rosae Crucis, complete with Rosicrucian pyramids, all in the Pennsylvania woods.

In the early 1800s, surgery was also a show.

This semi-spooky remnant of an abandoned hotel provides fantastic views.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Delicate Wurlitzers, creepy clowns, and The Noid all share space in this insane explosion of kitsch history.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

These tourist trap caverns are said to be the former home of a legendary Pennsylvania Hermit.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.