Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Victorian glasshouses, changing flower shows, and sustainable design make Phipps more than a greenhouse stroll.
Pennsylvania, United States: places and wildlife — page 3
Browse the published Explore collection for Pennsylvania, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Ricketts Glen State Park
A steep walk through two forested glens passes 21 waterfalls, but the beauty here requires real hiking preparation.
Valley Forge National Historical Park
Walk the ground where Washington’s army endured the winter of 1777–78 and emerged better organized for the war ahead.
Flight 93 National Memorial
The memorial joins a hilltop visitor center, a field of honor, and a separate Wall of Names in a landscape designed for reflection.
Brandywine Museum of Art
A restored mill and glass riverside galleries hold generations of Wyeth work and a wider story of American illustration and landscape.
Presque Isle State Park
An evolving Lake Erie sand peninsula offers beaches, lagoons, migrations, and a very different Pennsylvania landscape.
The Franklin Institute
Walk inside a colossal heart, then follow the experiments and live demonstrations that turn abstract science into something physical and surprising.
Museum of the American Revolution
Follow the Revolution through soldiers, families, enslaved people, and preserved objects, then encounter Washington's actual wartime headquarters tent.
Penn Museum
Meet a colossal Egyptian sphinx, then ask how ancient objects reached Philadelphia and whose interpretations guide them now.
National Constitution Center
Step into the 1787 convention, study founding documents, and test how constitutional ideas still shape public life.
Please Touch Museum
Let children shop, build, steer, and invent across two playful floors, then ride a restored 1908 carousel.
Mütter Museum
Study anatomy, disease, and medical teaching through historical specimens while asking whose bodies and stories the collection preserves.
Carnegie Museum of Art
Enter the monumental Hall of Architecture, then follow Pittsburgh's art museum from historic plaster casts into changing contemporary work.
Kamin Science Center
Hands-on science shares the riverfront with a planetarium, a submarine, and a remarkable model of western Pennsylvania.
Senator John Heinz History Center
Six floors connect Pittsburgh's workers, inventions, neighborhoods, sports, and television stories inside a former Strip District warehouse.
Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
Walk among nearly a hundred historic locomotives and cars, then see what railroad technology changed for work and travel.
Mercer Museum
Henry Mercer's unusual museum suspends boats and carriages above a maze of preindustrial tools, trades, and human ingenuity.
Erie Maritime Museum
A former waterfront power station connects Perry's 1813 victory to the ships, workers, and changing harbor that shaped Erie.
The National Civil War Museum
A chronological, artifact-rich account of the Civil War asks how the conflict began, was lived, and still shapes America.
Liberty Bell Center
See the cracked State House bell, then follow how generations reshaped its meaning of liberty.
Eisenhower National Historic Site
Walk the Gettysburg farm where Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower lived, hosted leaders, and raised Angus cattle.
Fort Necessity National Battlefield
A small stockade in the Great Meadows opens a much larger story of competing empires and Indigenous alliances.
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
Follow charcoal, waterpower, labor, and cast iron through a preserved Pennsylvania furnace village.
Johnstown Flood National Memorial
Stand above the failed South Fork Dam and trace how one breach devastated the Conemaugh Valley.
Steamtown National Historic Site
Explore a working rail yard, locomotive roundhouse, and museums of steam-era engineering in Scranton.
Washington Crossing Historic Park
Stand where Washington's army set off across the Delaware on Christmas night.
Historic Ephrata Cloister
Read communal religious life in the tall timber houses and working spaces.
Old Economy Village
Explore preserved homes, workshops, and garden of the Harmony Society.
Carrie Blast Furnaces
Tour two immense preserved blast furnaces and discover the workers, technology, and communities behind Pittsburgh steel.
Rodin Museum
See Rodin's bronze and marble works within a tranquil Parkway garden and intimate galleries.
Fort Pitt Museum
Understand Pittsburgh's contested beginnings inside a reconstructed riverside bastion at the Point.
Drake Well Museum and Park
See the 1859 oil-well site and working machinery that transformed modern energy.
Independence Seaport Museum
Explore Delaware River exhibits, cruiser Olympia, and a separately guided historic submarine.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Read American art across two buildings and a remarkable Furness-designed landmark.
Elfreth’s Alley
Walk a lived-in colonial lane, then enter two small houses that tell its working-class story.
Horseshoe Curve National Historic Landmark
Watch working trains sweep around the Allegheny slope that solved a formidable railroad climb.
Fonthill Castle
Tour Henry Mercer's eccentric concrete home where handmade tiles turn rooms into stories.
Pennsbury Manor
Explore a reconstructed riverside estate that makes William Penn's Pennsylvania tangible and complicated.
Cornwall Iron Furnace
Go inside a rare intact charcoal ironworks and trace the labor behind its furnace.
Philadelphia Zoo
Follow overhead animal trails through the country's first zoological garden.
Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium
Move from wooded animal habitats into a remarkable, family-friendly aquatic world.
National Aviary
Enter immersive habitats where birds move freely above and beside you.
Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Historic Village
Visit a protected rockshelter where excavations reshaped North American chronology.
Cherry Springs State Park
See the Milky Way from Pennsylvania's exceptionally dark public observing field.
Kinzua Bridge State Park
Walk an engineering landmark above the gorge that reclaimed part of its giant steel span.
Hickory Run State Park
Cross the remarkable Boulder Field, then find quieter forest trails nearby.
Cook Forest State Park
Stand inside an old-growth forest cathedral of soaring pines above the Clarion River.
Worlds End State Park
Hike Loyalsock Creek's folded mountains, then pause above the valley at Canyon Vista.