1. This Pittsburgh House Is Easy To Spot But Impossible To Forget
Randyland on Arch Street in Pittsburgh is home to artist, Randy Gilson, and it’s literally the most colorful house in the country. While there are various displays in and around the property, the house itself is covered in the most impressive. You have to see it to believe it.
2. This Pennsylvania Museum Unlocks The Greatest Escape Artist’s Secrets
Scranton, Penn. is home to the only museum dedicated exclusively to the master of escape, Harry Houdini. With events like the Harry Houdini Halloween Séance, magic shows, and guided tours featuring Houdini’s actual escape tools, this museum is literally one of a kind.
3. This Pachyderm Museum Really Packs ’Em In
If you’re into the largest land-dwelling thing on earth, Ed Gotwalk is the guy you’ve got to meet.
Mister Ed’s Elephant Museum in Orrtanna is home to over 12,000 elephant themed items. Even if you’re not quite as obsessed as this guy is, it’s worth the stop for the 70-plus flavors of homemade fudge alone.
4. Your Curiosity May Get The Better Of You At Trundle Manor
The self-proclaimed “most unusual tourist trap in the world meets the most bizarre private collection on public display,” is pretty much the perfect way to describe Trundle Manor.
Home to taxidermied creatures, animals preserved in jars, and the nightmarish devices, a tour through the halls of this Pittsburgh collection will leave you with unforgettable memories.
5. Your Memories Of This Pennsylvania Event May Be A Bit Fuzzy
In case you’ve wondered why once a year the streets of Pittsburgh are filled with adults in animal costumes, we know the answer: It’s Anthrocon.
Lasting several days, participants don their furry suits and have parades, role-play with friends, and attend nightly dances. With some suits costing in thousands of dollars, these furries take their passion very seriously.
6. Being Cold-Blooded Is A Good Thing At This Unmissssable Attraction
Once home to the “Feed Us A Live Insect” machine, a controversial coin operated cricket dispenser, Cylde Peeling’s Reptiland brings rare reptiles from around the world to Allenwood, Penn.
Scaly creatures like the Komodo dragon, red spitting cobras, frilled dragons, and nearly 40 others reptiles currently reside at Reptiland in specially tailored habitats.
Braver visitors can get up close and personal with some of them at daily animal encounter experiences.
7. Step Aside Quarter-Pounder, Pennsylvania Has A 125-Pound Burger
If winning a food challenge is on your bucket list, Clearfield, Penn. is the place to do it.
Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub has some of the most monstrous burger challenges in the country. Ranging from 2–25 pounds, their burgers are no laughing matter.
Winners get shirts and discounts. They’ll also make you a 125 pound burger for your next house party. How they manage to cook that, I have no idea.
8. You Don’t Even Know The Meaning Of “Super-Size It” Until You’ve Seen This Big Mac
Not only can residents try to eat one of the biggest burgers in the country at Denny’s Beer Barrel Pub, they can also stop by North Huntingdon to take a picture with the biggest Big Mac in the world, at 14 feet tall. It’s at the Big Mac museum, dedicated to the history of the sandwich, which happened to be created 40 miles south in Uniontown.
9. In This Pennsylvania Brew Pub, Every Pint Is Truly Divine
Once a Roman Catholic church, Church Brew Works brewpub is one of the only breweries in the country that resides inside of a church. Pews have been removed to make room for tables, but natural light still comes into the tasting room through stained glass.
With some of the best beer in the state, it’s worth the pilgrimage to check it out.
10. Who Knew Pennsylvania Had Its Very Own Castle?
With 44 rooms and over 200 windows, Fonthill Concrete Castle in Doylestown must be fun to keep clean.
Home to over 40,000 items of the Mercer Museum of the pre-Industrial Age life, no two visits to this giant castle are alike.
11. A Totally Different Kind Of Wax Museum Calls Pennsylvania Home
Everyone knows that Pennsylvania is home to the Hershey’s chocolate, but what not a lot of folks know that it’s also home to every kid’s favorite writing utensil, the Crayola crayon.
Not only are visitors able to see how the crayons are made, they can also see two record breaking pieces of wax, the largest Crayola in the world at 15 feet long and 1,500 pounds and the most expensive crayon, purchased at $100,000. It was the billionth one that Crayola made.
12. There’s A House Shaped Like A Shoe, And That’s No Fairy Tale
Built in 1948 as a way to advertise a shoe store, the Haines Shoe House in Hellam is 25 feet tall and 48 feet long. Inspired by a work boot, the initial owner Mahlon Haines went to an architect with his favorite shoe and said “build me a house like this,” and, ta-da!
13. This Pennsylvania City Is Nuts About Extraterrestrials
As the story goes, in 1965 a giant object flew across the Pennsylvania sky before crashing in Kecksburg. Almost instantly, the military arrived taking it away and telling locals to forget about the incident.
It wasn’t until 1990 when a UFO-themed television show came to town that the “space acorn” was built, a giant copper colored acorn shaped object encircled with Egyptian hieroglyphics.
In 2005, on the 40th anniversary of the crash, the acorn was put on top of a pole for all to see.
14. Philadelphians Can Go See A Humongous Colon Whenever They Want
Aside from being home to things like the tallest skeleton on display in North America and slides of Albert Einstein’s brain, visitors to the Mütter Museum of medical oddities can also see a 9 foot long colon.
The organ was removed from a man known in the sideshow community as “The Human Balloon.”
15. The World’s Most Intense Merry-Go-Round Is In Bucks County
The Johnsville human centrifuge was used to test astronauts’ reaction to different levels of G-forces. Weighing 180 tons, its arm is capable to accelerating to a 175 mile per hour spin in 7 short seconds and able to produce a force of 100 Gs, even though 40 is enough to kill a human.
To prove a trip to Mars was possible in a fast enough shuttle, one scientist brought his favorite chair into work and spun in the machine for 24 straight hours.
Across the Keystone State, there are all sorts of wacky and bizarre things to do. The people there are passionate about the things they love, whether it reptiles, sandwiches, or collecting things that can’t really be classified and it’s this same passion that makes these people so eager to share them with the rest of the world.
Did we miss anything? Tell us your favorite secret spot in Pennsylvania in the comments below! 
