Pennsylvania

13 places and 49 sights on our lists.

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Places in Pennsylvania

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Heritage · Memorials

Flight 93 National Memorial

Pennsylvania

A quiet Pennsylvania field where passengers fought back on September 11, 2001, with a Tower of Voices and a wall of names.

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Heritage · Battlefields

Gettysburg

Pennsylvania

The Civil War's turning point, and the field where Lincoln gave his most famous speech.

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Heritage · Gardens

Longwood Gardens and the Brandywine Valley

Pennsylvania and Delaware

The du Ponts' country: America's greatest garden, Winterthur's vast decorative arts collection, and the Wyeths' art.

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Heritage · American Revolution

Valley Forge

Pennsylvania

Where Washington's starving army wintered in 1777–78 and came out a real fighting force.

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Heritage · UNESCO

Bethlehem and Jim Thorpe

Pennsylvania

An 18th-century Moravian settlement that's now a World Heritage Site, and the old rust-belt steel town around it.

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Heritage · Architecture

Fallingwater

Pennsylvania

Frank Lloyd Wright's masterpiece, built right over a waterfall in the Pennsylvania woods.

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Festivals & Seasons · Winter

Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney

Pennsylvania
February 2 every year, from about 3 a.m.

At dawn every February 2, tens of thousands gather in a small Pennsylvania town to hear whether Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow.

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Heritage · Amish country

Lancaster County

Pennsylvania

Rolling farmland where Amish families still farm with horses and travel by buggy.

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Cities · Rivers

Pittsburgh

Pennsylvania

Three rivers, old inclines up Mount Washington for the view, and the Andy Warhol Museum.

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Spiritual · Hindu temple

Sri Venkateswara Temple

Pennsylvania

The oldest Hindu temple in the United States built by Indian immigrants, modeled on the great temple at Tirupati and a pilgrimage for Hindus across the country, in Penn Hills near Pittsburgh.

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Heritage · American Revolution

Washington Crossing

Pennsylvania and New Jersey

Where Washington crossed the icy Delaware on Christmas night 1776 and turned the war around.

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Sights in Pennsylvania

Also in Pennsylvania

Not on the short list, but here if your work or family brings you.

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