A 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.
Road trips · Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Pennsylvania — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Happening in Pennsylvania
World Cup 2026
Barely two dozen marquee events hit the whole country in a year — and Pennsylvania has one this June. Roamward builds the trip around it: the scenic route in, the detours worth a slack day, and when rooms sell out.
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Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
A 75-foot lighthouse standing improbably far inland on a private island in the Allegheny River at Tionesta, deep in the forested northwest.
A 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.
The 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.
A 1,200-foot folk-art mural of flowers, balloons, and animals welded entirely from retired highway signs, along Route 36 near Punxsutawney.
A 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.
Worth traveling for
Events that put Pennsylvania on the calendar.
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