A cook fires up your own hibachi plate to order, right inside an all-you-can-eat buffet. You pick the…

A mammoth three-sided bar anchors the middle of this food hall, and seven locally owned Asian kitchens circle…

Somewhere in Pennsylvania, you can browse Hermes, peek inside a Porsche studio, and slurp soup dumplings without ever…

One Pennsylvania burger hides mushrooms and onions inside the patty itself, then gets finished with Velveeta and a…

Pennsylvania’s tallest waterfall costs nothing to see. There’s no ticket booth and no turnstile, just a short trail…

A freight train can wrap around you on three sides here. The engines head one direction while the…

Back in 1876, a small-town photographer built a wooden tower roughly 75 to 80 feet tall on a…

Five pounds of chocolate candy that flunked its beauty test can go home with you for under twenty…

The outdoor dealers start setting up before sunrise, and the serious hunters arrive with flashlights. That alone tells…

A five-person crew stretches fresh mozzarella by hand, five days a week, for a family cheese shop with…

A whole bakery built its name on pound cake, and you still need cash to take one home….

A college classroom building in Pennsylvania rises 42 stories and 535 feet into the sky. It’s often called…

A hillside of crumbly gray rock lets kids crack open stones and keep whatever ancient sea creatures they…

An entire Pennsylvania shop devotes itself to mushrooms, from fresh lion’s mane by the pound to mushroom-print shirts….

A Hollywood movie crew helped save an entire coal town from vanishing. Sean Connery filmed here, and the…

A group of settlers named their new Pennsylvania town during a Christmas Eve service in 1741. They were…

Honeybees fly in and out through the roof of a Pennsylvania farm market, and you can watch them…

Smoke can drift out of cracks in the ground in one tiny Pennsylvania borough. The cause is an…

Couples can reserve a free two-hour wedding ceremony inside a working Pennsylvania courthouse that first opened its doors…

One small bakery calls itself the Home of the Long John, and it even sells a stuffed plush…

An open mine car rolls 1,800 feet straight into the side of a mountain, and you get to…

You can walk underneath a 62-ton steam locomotive here. Not beside it, not behind a rope, but right…

A movie theater built around 1936 went dark in the 1980s, then lit up its screens again in…

A Pennsylvania mountain town once gave up its own name and took the name of an Olympic legend….

A 22-foot Fraser fir spins slowly in the middle of a Pennsylvania garden this winter, ringed by giant…

Sixty thousand ornaments. That’s the reported count hanging inside one Pennsylvania restaurant during the holidays, and it isn’t…

One Pennsylvania bakery opens its doors for just four hours a week, and it picks Saturday to do…

A restaurant in Pennsylvania lets you eat breakfast inside an old railroad dining car, with a little jukebox…

A family of German glassblowers with roots going back to 1596 still supplies ornaments to a shop in…

Pennsylvania’s official state fossil is a trilobite with frog-like eyes, and at one state park you can go…

Paper-thin corned beef, stacked high with coleslaw and Russian dressing on rye, is the order that put one…

One little sandwich counter has been slicing salami to order since 1920, and it still builds every hoagie…

Thirty slices of tomato pie, a thick blanket of sauce, and not a single expectation that it arrives…

One wooden bridge on this list went up in the 1820s, and drivers still use it on a…

Ask for your cheesesteak to travel, and it gets wrapped a special way to keep the roll from…

Whole bolts of fabric, still uncut and wound tight on the cardboard, can land on the sale racks…

A small stone bakery opened in 1861 and calls itself the very first commercial pretzel bakery in America….

Twenty-one waterfalls, every one with its own name, line a single loop trail of about seven miles. The…

Two farmers were blasting for limestone in 1871 when the hillside cracked open and revealed a glittering cave….

Fresh-baked bread lands on the table with house olive oil so good some diners try to take a…

Breakfast arrives in a skillet here, home fries and all, and somehow that isn’t even the headline. The…

A grocery store covering roughly 130,000 square feet sells spices by the scoop. That alone made me sit…

Pies here can leave the building still warm. That’s what happens when the bakery sits right inside the…

The soda fountain at this ice cream parlor is built from onyx, bronze, and marble, and it dates…

Three big fish fillets land on a single order of fish and chips. That’s the regular plate at…

The crab cakes here come broiled, the scallops come fried or broiled, and there’s a seafood market right…

Somewhere along a quiet country road, a little outdoor window serves warm soft pretzels coated in garlic herb…

An average of 18,000 birds of prey glide past one rocky ridge each fall, and many of them…

More than 12,000 elephants share a roof with a candy counter in Pennsylvania. They’re figurines, statues, and trinkets,…

Chicken fried steak smothered in sausage gravy, paired with eggs, and available as early as 6 a.m. That’s…

A plate of fried zucchini planks at one Pennsylvania diner comes piled so high it could feed a…

A motel along a rural Pennsylvania highway serves porterhouse steaks, flat iron cuts, and lobster tails on special…

A bakery that started selling bread out of a family home in 1924 now sells tomato pie by…

One farm on this list will hand you a free chest freezer when you buy a quarter cow….

Crab legs that get refilled over and over, right next to a chef cooking your picks on a…

The dessert showcases sit right by the front door, and they take up more floor space than plenty…

A wealthy couple once planned a 16,000-square-foot mansion on rolling Pennsylvania farmland. Then the husband rethought the whole…

A small pizza counter in a strip-mall shopping center has been turning out thin-crust New York-style pies since…

A bouquet of fresh flowers, unusual cereal flavors, and Walnut Creek foods can all land in the same…

A college campus where the trees are part of the curriculum sounds like a daydream. Yet one small…

A sundae called the Daudy End shares a menu with ham balls, homemade noodles, and fried chicken. That…

A soft pretzel big enough to cover an entire lunch tray. That’s the opening act here, and the…

A whole wall of pie stands near the buffet at one Pennsylvania country restaurant, and the slices come…

One Pennsylvania fair has so many apple dumpling stands that a national food magazine called one of them…

Santa doesn’t wait at the end of a long mall line on this train. He walks the aisle…

One Pennsylvania town throws a three-day party every October to mark a fight that happened in 1758. Yes,…

A free bag of cheese curls might land in your shopping bag at checkout, just because. That small…

A cheesesteak built around the flavors of cacio e pepe sits on the menu at one Italian market…

Fresh-squeezed lemonade from a kiosk might be the most important tool for a shopping day this big. You’ll…

The ovens fire up before 5 a.m., and the doors lock again by noon. That tight window belongs…

I only meant to grab a quick coffee and keep driving through Pennsylvania. Then the smell of warm…

Chocolate shaped like tractors, trumpets, and tools fills the shelves of a small candy shop inside a farm…

An amusement park with two giant wooden roller coasters charges nothing to walk through the gate. Parking costs…

The smoke here comes from actual hardwood fires, and on the tour you can toss a log onto…

The door looked ordinary, the sign looked old, and the smell of hot potatoes drifted out onto the…