The Gem Hunt
America decides what makes the map.
Every state has a spot the algorithms miss — the one locals send strangers to. Name it. Vote on the finalists. The winners get built into Roamward, the scenic road-trip app that proves you actually went. No download required to play.
Nominate
What does Pennsylvania do better than anywhere?
One hidden gem — a place a chatbot would never know. The most-named spots become finalists, and the crowd votes the winner into Roamward.
Vote
Pennsylvania gems, most-loved first
- 1Haines Shoe HouseA five-story house shaped like a giant work boot, built by an eccentric shoe salesman in 1949 near York — tour it or even book an overnight stay in the Dutch country.
- 2Sherman Memorial LighthouseA 75-foot lighthouse standing improbably far inland on a private island in the Allegheny River at Tionesta, deep in the forested northwest.
- 3Mars Flying SaucerA 3,000-pound metal UFO parked in the town square of Mars, north of Pittsburgh, leaning all the way into the town's cosmic name — a quick, fun photo stop.
- 4Archbald PotholeThe world's largest glacial pothole, 38 feet deep and carved by Ice Age meltwater, preserved in a small state park near Scranton in the northeast coal country.
- 5PennDOT Road Sign Sculpture GardenA 1,200-foot folk-art mural of flowers, balloons, and animals welded entirely from retired highway signs, along Route 36 near Punxsutawney.
- 6Centralia Ghost TownA coal town smoldering since 1962, where an underground mine fire burned the place into near-oblivion, leaving cracked streets, venting steam, and a few holdouts in the eastern anthracite region.
- 7Ringing Rocks County ParkA seven-acre field of boulders in Bucks County that chime like bells when you tap them with a hammer — bring one and go hunting, then walk the short trail to High Falls near Upper Black Eddy.
- 8Mister Ed's Elephant MuseumA roadside wonderland near Gettysburg packed with over 12,000 elephant figurines plus a candy counter making its own fudge, pralines, and fresh-roasted peanuts — a gloriously oddball Route 30 stop.
- 9Cucumber FallsA 30-foot bridal-veil waterfall tucked in Ohiopyle State Park in the Laurel Highlands, minutes from Fallingwater but free and far less crowded — scramble down and walk behind the curtain of water.
- 10Bushkill FallsEight waterfalls strung through a Pocono gorge — locals call it the "Niagara of Pennsylvania" — laced with family-run boardwalks and bridges since 1904, a satisfying half-day off I-80.
Not your state’s turn yet?
Want Roamward to map Pennsylvania next?
Add your vote — the loudest state gets mapped first.
How it works
Nominate
Drop the most underrated spot in your state — the gem an itinerary generator would never surface.
The crowd ranks it
Name a place someone already nominated and it rises. The most-loved gems become the state’s finalists.
Vote the winner in
Finalists go to a public vote. Winners get built into Roamward — credited to the people who found them.
Go verify it
Drive it, GPS-verify the stop, earn the badge, and share the map that proves you were first.
Don’t miss the winners
Be the first to find what the crowd picks.
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