7 Places You Won't Believe Exist in Pennsylvania! (Part 1)

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[@t.r.1442]

I moved to Pheonixville from Brooklyn when I was about 14. I never left NYC before that. I very quickly developed a love for all things P.A. from Philly to Pitt., and everything in between. I only lived there for a short time before moving back to NY, but I go back as often as possible and have never lost that love.

[@victoriarose3478]

Maybe you should move there because that is where your heart stayed ❤

[@def1791]

If your using Philadelphia and Pittsburg as your standard of PA your missing EVERYTHING that’s good about it.

[@t.r.1442]

@@victoriarose3478 maybe one day.

[@t.r.1442]

@@def1791 what I meant was from one side of the state to the other and everything in between.

[@GeoffsSousChef]

@@t.r.1442 yea, like you actually wrote "everything in between" ...lol. someone could stand to improve their reading skills 🤪

[@GeoffsSousChef]

Cherry Springs State Park sounds like a Must Do.

[@travelawaitsyou]

yep it is.

[@kevinbillingsley8256]

They most definitely know how the fire started in Centralia. Miners were burning garbage and decided a mine load with anthracite coal would be a good place to do it. For those who don't know, anthracite coal, while more difficult to ignite than bituminous coal, burns hotter and longer. But it also needs lots of air. It probably would have went out by now but the geniuses at the EPA decided to dig bore holes all over the place to test the ground temperature, providing just enough oxygen to the fire to allow it to spread to every mine in the area. Then, the government did a study and found that buying up the property and moving everyone out would cost about 10% as much as putting out the fire. That's how it started and why it's still burning.

[@JarrodLamp]

I was their this summer the fire is starting to burn out the trees and grass is taking over again.

[@Blondie77128]

It was miners burning trash. It was the town’s burn put for trash, which was designed for it’s purpose and had a firewall around it to keep it from spreading. After years of use, a portion of the firewall failed and the fire spread into the coal pockets. There are documentaries you can find that explain this.

[@brewcrew5854]

i am glad u said that i found it peculiar they would say no one knows i have seen many videos and all explain the source . one question though was it miners or fire dept ? i recall they were cleaning up the town prior to a founders day or carnival type event ? i also heard that its almost burned out but has moved towards neighboring towns ?

[@teresawest5602]

Was not miners who burnt the garbage, it was supposed to be a controlled burn of the dump the fire was thought to be extinguished but wasn't and that started the coal mines to burn poorly done research on this video, oh and why weren't the abandoned turnpike tunnels mentioned

[@travelawaitsyou]

Part 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pImXnXqAi6aelZosi=5P99-Y_-75tePnST

[@Mehariyat]

Pennsylvania is incredible 🔥

[@Sniper.925]

more like a shit hole

[@Diane-nr3sf]

Thank you I've lived here all my life and it is a great state

[@dklang]

Wow, you're right never knew Penn had all these amazing places. Thanks

[@travelawaitsyou]

Our pleasure!

[@thecarman3693]

Other places to visit: Ashland Pioneer Coalmine tunnel Strasburg Train museum Reading Pagoda New Hope, PA (across the Delaware from No Hope, NJ) Falling Water house by Frank Lloyd Wright

[@travelawaitsyou]

covered in part 3. kindly check out

[@purpleclouds480]

I’ve been to the Pagoda at night and it’s so pretty

[@mcm0324]

Pioneer Tunnel is a normal 3rd grade field trip since I was in 3rd grade (1978), and all of my kids went there too!

[@antoniotassi253]

They are fencing off the Reading Pagoda bc there has been trouble with the visitors and crowd up there apparently

[@seancrowley1065]

Don't you mean No Hope across the bridge from LAMBERTVILLE NJ ? If you're going to comment, do it right !

[@ryimscaith1593]

Lived in PA all my life. Over five decades. Been to all these. Was at Ringing Rocks during a "concert" of talented people that set up and played for days. Was astounding. As an added fact, Centralia was the town featured in the movie Silent Hill. The "smoke effects" were not effects, but the actual burning smoke of the mine through the town.

[@mournblade1066]

No, Centralia was NOT featured in Silent Hill. It was the INSPIRATION for the movie version, but nothing was filmed there.

[@f.frederickskitty2910]

I'm guessing Nothing But Trouble used it for inspiration too

[@Guitarplayer724]

@@mournblade1066 You tell them!!😂

[@cavemanlawyer5608]

@@mournblade1066silent hill sucked anyway

[@carolirvine7663]

I was born in a town near Centailia and it was burning long before 1962. It was in '62 that people began leaving.

[@Jodyrides]

being in Pittsburgh, I know a little about the trolley situation. General Motors made a sweet offer to the port authority at the time. They would get buses, diesel, powered buses at a great price, but only if, only if they retired all of the trolleys, and ripped up the tracks and took down the power wires for the trolleys. They wanted there to be no chance of them going back to trolleys. Pittsburgh had a pretty comprehensive set up that had been working for decades with electric trolleys. There are still a few trolley routes through the South Hills of Pittsburgh. It’s called the “T”.. it’s still operates on those old trolley tracks, but it operates modern longer heavier smoother riding more powerful trolley cars that are a couple together. They run them tandem two cars at a time. You can go through the South Hills on a couple of the routes, into downtown Pittsburgh, and under the river by the baseball stadium, to the football stadium, and the casino in a modern up-to-date trolley… The trolley is free jerrod from North Side, where the stadiums are into town, and from South side, into town, and into the stadiums.. now that the whole world is trying to go green, I’m sure that the people that made the decision to rip up the tracks and retire the trolleys decades ago realize their mistake.. I rode the trolleys when I was a kid, it was 15 cents.. Pittsburgh is nothing but hills once you get away from the river valley. It’s surprising that all of these trolleys were able to operate on these hills, even in the winter. They had sand dispensers at the drive wheels that would spray sand on the tracks so the train could get traction for its steel wheels on the steel trench… You could hear the trolleys, rolling a block away, they had bells instead of horns.. Seating was pretty basic, and there was lots of standing room.. sitting in the last seat in front of the rear window, gave you the wildest ride as the street cars would do a tail shake side to side. You didn’t want to sit in the last seats if you were susceptible to motion, sickness, like I was. The best place to sit was directly in the middle between the two sets of wheels. Street cars were not air-conditioned , but the newer “T” Electric street cars are air-conditioned

[@magpieone9390]

Septa has a couple there too

[@JayKarpwick]

You're talking about a company called National City Lines that was headed by GM and included oil and tire companies - IIRC Gulf, Firestone and possible others. NCL was a "false front" that as you mentioned presented itself as a white-knight company that would modernize transit systems that had been battered by WWII-era overload and political neglect. Wherever possible they ripped out rails, scrapped cars, and either converted service to buses or ended routes completely. An urban-planner friend wrote his thesis on NCL. His conclusion, similar to that of other transit historians, was that NCL wasn't the sole reason trolley systems failed. Rather they sought out and destroyed systems that were already in trouble, and sought to weaken systems that were still reasonably solid. When the scheme was uncovered GM went to its friends in DC and received only a slap on the wrist.

[@ironman4122]

Shout aht Randyland, I had the pleasure to meet Randy himself and he does not disappoint! Very nice guy and his mind matches his land that he built, simply beautiful 🖤💛🤟✌️

[@travelawaitsyou]

he really is a good guy

[@williampalchak7574]

The pretzel shop in Lititz PA. You get to make your own pretzel.

[@LucidDreamer54321]

You could have included Coudersport Ice Mine. It is a cave that is warm during the winter and has ice in it during the summer.

[@obeii1805]

Interesting

[@PauloutHere]

There are lots of ice mines all over. It’s how they stored ice prior to refrigeration.

[@LucidDreamer54321]

@PauloutHere No, it is not a place used for storing ice. The ice forms in it naturally.

[@pyrorye-80]

Ice cave at trough creek as well. Many in pa

[@heygetoffmylawn1572]

I am from Penn. Excellent content on the subjects. I’ve been to or know of most of these places. Thanks for sharing, Friend. 👍

[@travelawaitsyou]

So nice of you

[@paulmcdermott638]

Route 61

[@buttonvalley]

If you were really from Pennsylvania, you would have said "I am from PA." No one from PA says "I am from Penn."

[@mcm0324]

From the COMMONWEALTH of PA (northeast) my entire life and proud of it! We're a Commonwealth - not a State.

[@Susan-lf2hl]

Ricketts Glen Stata Park with 25+.waterfalls is a must in the western.Pocono escarpment!

[@janeflip1]

I forgot about that!

[@mrmartin7131]

Is it anything like bushkill falls?

[@DrummerT2023]

I live maybe 5 minutes from the Haines Shoe House. It's within the last year been re-sold to a new married couple that from what I heard, wanted to renovate it and keep it a bed and breakfast.

[@nathanbrady8529]

If you dig into electric trolleys being replaced by gas buses, you'll learn the public was not happy about it and it was not an improvement. In a textbook case of American "free market," the bus companies were struggling because the public preferred the trolleys. So, the bus companies drummed up investor money, bought the trolleys, and did away with them, leaving no alternative to the louder, dirtier, less efficient busses.

[@travelawaitsyou]

Places To AVOID in Pennsylvania: kzbin.info/www/bejne/epi4ZJ-qe5lgftE

[@rustyfan89]

I’ve lived in PA most of my life and travelled all over it, the only place I didn’t know or have never been to is the trolley graveyard, even though long before my time the Lehigh Valley Trolley went right through my back yard

[@kb3cxe]

They know exactly how the fire started.

[@TheTokyoWater]

Shouldn’t burn trash in a coal mine folks.

[@winterrye7405]

Ryan started the fire!

[@akaqcat]

Been there. It is creepy. I only saw the on ramp to graffiti highway.

[@howtodoitdude1662]

We didn’t start the fire

[@donaldcurtis9229]

I grew up as Charles Burke.I remember the mind fires.You sign up the Simpson Carbondale.Can see them all the way on our drive.Totally fit is excusable and nobody was held accountable

[@franciscocruzjr5721]

My wife and I are planning to move to PA. Cherry Springs State park is on my bucket list.

[@travelawaitsyou]

glad to know that!

[@JKlasen]

Welcome

[@jar407]

be carefull high tax and make sure estate and powere of arttorney done. law there you can have money but if your incapasated and need funds for you and your bills if you dont apoint someon it can take a very long legal battle to get access happed to my grandmom long time ago and when my aunt became incopident and in nursing care if she didnt have her power of atterny it is still very hard and expensive meanwhile you become ward of the state

[@johnnycotrel7413]

It's not as great as you think. It's just a small park. They did put up small observatories i would guess that you can rent or maybe they are free. I live about 20 minutes away from it but i haven't really been up there in years. I would probably say if your moving to Pa. Id search for a smaller town or something like that. I actually live in Roulette,Pa. Very small town. We do have a post office and a beer joint/ restaurant and fire dept. Not really any major businesses. Cherry Springs is on rte 44. Can't miss it. Now on the other hand we also have Kinzua bridge which used to a lot more fun when the bridge went all the way over and you could walk across it but a tornado took it down so now they just put up a viewing area you can walk out on. We also have the Kinzua Rimrocks and the Kinzua Dam. Another nice place to go would be the Allegheny state park which is in both Pa and Ny. But the area i live in is nice even without going to the parks.

[@dyharvin6778]

Dont go anywhere near philadelphia

[@Pghmama2231]

Happy to live here! Born and raised

[@travelawaitsyou]

That's awesome! We have more videos coming on Pennsylvania. Stay Tuned :)

[@janeflip1]

Love Ringing Rocks! We used to skip school and go there to smoke pot! Hey! It was the 70s!

[@joeorlando1955]

I am retired but lived in PA most of my adult life. This video is excellent. Well done. If you ever do a follow up = Hershey and its kissing tower, Lancaster and its Amish & largest buffet in the world, Turnpike tunnels, and I am sure the comments mention even more. Thanks ! !

[@travelawaitsyou]

noted.

[@aaronandvicky7652]

Just went through the tunnels 2 days ago. Amazing. Also rode the train at strausburg railroad. Wow. Trains cars from the 1800s pulled by engine car 90. What an experience.

[@johnm.5848]

I live outside of Boston and I'm surprised that some of the MBTA's Green Line trolleys ended up in the woods of PA many years ago.

[@johnneff6546]

Appreciate the fast pace, but yeah, a little map inset would have been helpful! The Mutter Museum is in Philadelphia & it's very creepy. Ringing Rocks is near Upper Black Eddy off Rte 32 in Bucks County. I grew up nearby & have been there many times - always a fun trip.

[@travelawaitsyou]

appreciate your suggestion.

[@JohnSimpson-r5d]

We visited Randyland because of this video. My grandson, Scott, and I really enjoyed it! My wife just stayed in the car.

[@craigbathurst1185]

There is also ringing rocks in Pottstown, Pa

[@davidaaaa4611]

Interesting video. I would love to go to the stargazing place. Cherry Springs park. Thanks for the video. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍♥♥♥

[@travelawaitsyou]

our pleasure.

[@davidaaaa4611]

@@travelawaitsyou The dark sky reserve would be great in my back yard. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@keith2772]

I remember my dad driving us kids through Centralia back in the 80s. Back then people still lived there and you could drive right through the town.

[@travelawaitsyou]

yep.

[@runzelstilzchen8392]

The Windber Trolley Graveyard blew me into the corner! Sad, so indescribable sad, to see those relics of the good old times rotting away....Ggeezzz!!!

[@99sentcoins]

Other places of interest are Kinzua Bridge Lookout Rim Rock (a bucketlist must) Pa Grand Canyon Penns Caves

[@travelawaitsyou]

couple of them have been discussed in the next parts. make sure to check them out too.

[@99sentcoins]

@@travelawaitsyou Sweet

[@robertbeining141]

Excellent vid and presentation. I have been to most of these places and it is definitely worth the time and expense!

[@travelawaitsyou]

Appreciate it

[@michaellehmbeck8671]

Thank you so much Travel Awaits You for uploading this great video, I appreciate it! Pennsylvania is a cool state, Have you ever been to Snow Shoe?

[@travelawaitsyou]

Maybe one day!

[@loyevangelists]

I have lived in Pennsylvania all of my 64 years and I never heard of these places, except for Centralia. I wished that you would have given the town or nearest town to where these places are.

[@loyevangelists]

I correct myself I recently heard about the Haines Shoe House and I believe that it is in Wrightsville,PA

[@travelawaitsyou]

:/

[@toddw6716]

Shoe house between Columbia and York off route 30 I think

[@brianmorg]

I grew up near Ringing Rocks. It’s behind the roller rink we went to as kids. Look up zip 19464 if you’re interested in visiting.

[@cherylspencer3662]

I believe that is why we have google😮😅❤

[@bezuglich]

The 1000 Steps, in Jacks Narrows, Mt. Union? Man, I miss them hills . . .

[@l.salisbury1253]

How 'bout the Monroeville Mall? People love that Mall so much the continue to visit even after they die...!

[@travelawaitsyou]

noted for the part 5.

[@julieshelley-fd5kp]

Love PA! Born in Erie and living in Philly now!

[@joyjanderchick7289]

Met my husband at Ringing Rocks, and we were married at the Rocks !!!!

[@travelawaitsyou]

congrats & glad to know that

[@susanjoseph2380]

I'm from Philadelphia. Thankyou for such interesting things. Thankyou

[@JayKarpwick]

* "thank you" 😊

[@patriciaadams-rl4iz]

Amazing, and actually the greatest sight seeing, places you would want to see.

[@travelawaitsyou]

Thank you

[@Impulse_Photography]

actually Centralia, Pa underground mine fire started because there was an area where ppl would burn garbage. As time went on they burned larger items. One day, the fire was so hot -and burned so long it caught the underground coal on fire -they didn't know a major coal vein ran right underneath that pit. Once it caught on fire - it's been burning since.

[@travelawaitsyou]

interesting.

[@remixcnk]

There's so many awesome places in PA...ive been to all the places except Randyland (never heard of it) I'm gunna have to check it out sometime

[@m.i.t.h.]

Centralia's fire isn't a mystery, it started in the town dump. They dug down to create a pit to dump the trash, but the dump hit the coal seam. That started the fire. People left the town because of the danger of void collapses. In other words, as the coal burned to ash it took up less space meaning the earth above it could collapse at any time. Since the coal pocket ran under most of the town almost everyone's homes were in danger of collapsing into the earth at any moment killing anyone nearby.

[@GeoffsSousChef]

dayyyym

[@Jodyrides]

I saw a program about Centralia which is about 150 miles east of me here in Pennsylvania. I am just north of Pittsburgh. I saw a program about Centralia that said that those fires could possibly smolder like that for the next 500 years… an unrelated note. The titanic also had a cold fire aboard when the titanic was launched on its maiden voyage. I worked in a coal fired power station when I was first hired by the company. I just retired from a few years ago. The cold comes to the power station by barge in the river. It is put on a belt conveyor, and it goes into the power station., end it is don’t in hoppers, like big funnels, maybe 100 feet high, and 40‘ x 40‘ square at the opening. They go down and dump the coal into a chain. It looks like boat anchors that draws the coal into a mill, which is a big tank that rotates that’s filled with steel balls The size of baseballs. It rotates at about 100 RPMs by electric motor. There are several of these turning while the boiler is operation. It pulverizes this cold, so find it acts like water on the ground when you try to pick it up with a shovel. It is like talc powder. It gets sucked up about 150 feet by a fan that is called An exhauster.. The exhauster is an enclosed fan, like an enclosed turbo charge about 8 feet across and 2 feet thick inside there is the propeller that sucks the cold powder out of the mill at ground level, and blows it into the top of the boiler, where it just falls through the boiler, and is ignited inside the boiler, inside rows and rows of vertical thick wall boiler tubes with water in them that is converted into steam, 1600 psi spins the Westinghouse generator at 3600 RPMs, which spins a generator at 3600 RPMs, which makes electricity at 60 cps of alternating current that’s cycles 60 times per second, which is the standard here in the United States That coal that is burning in Centralia I think has been burning since the 1960s. I don’t think it’s burning like a bonfire. I think it’s smoldering like a cigarette. but there have been fires smoldering in the hoppers where the coal is stored in the power station I worked at, it was in there continuously for the 18 months that I work there until I bid out on another job in another department. They kept spraying it with chemicals and water continuously with the fire hose, but they never could get it to go out, when they put more coal on top of it, it would ignite that Cole. Just like on the titanic., It’s no big deal, it’s not threatening, although on the titanic, I think it could have changed the temper of the steel.. it doesn’t matter now, it’s been explained that that was an insurance job. And it wasn’t even the titanic that was sunk, it was the sister ship of the Britannic. They change the names. The Britannic was damaged on an earlier voyage in New York harbor, when it collided with a battleship, bending the backbone of the ship to the point where it could not be repaired. So they switched the names and sunk the Britannic with the titanic name on it. Financier, JP Morgan, head statues, and personal items on the ship before it was to leave on its maiden voyage. But once they made the conspiracy to sync, the ship to collect the insurance, he had all of his possessions, removed the night before, and he did not go to New York on that ship, he claimed he was sick, but he was seen at a party that night not sick… that ship that was waiting out there with no passengers on it, called the Carpathia, that was waiting at a pre-designated spot near the ice field. There was a coal strike in England at that time, and Cole was very scarce. But the Carpathia went out without a passenger on board, but they had hundreds of blankets. Intended for the survivors of the titanic. It’s an interesting story and I believe it. There are many videos about this conspiracy insurance job on KZbin.. back in those days when people were starving in great Britain, and in Ireland, you could hold a man’s job over his head to keep his silence, about the name switch.. when they discovered the titanic/Britannic out there in the ocean, 2 miles down, you can see that the name titanic was knocked off in a couple places in front of the ship, and the name Britannic is under those letters..

[@mikejohn0088]

Very interesting writeup pal. The Titanic incident was no accident as you state. There were some very rich and powerful men on that maiden voyage. These men knew of the Jekyll Island conspiracy and were in total opposition to it. The Titanic went down in 1912; in 1913 Wilson signed his infamous executive order.

[@fredbloggs8072]

Centralia is, of course, the inspiration for the Silent Hill video game & movie.

[@gingercat7925]

I am surprised you did not touch on the abandoned turnpike tunnels.

[@travelawaitsyou]

will do in next video

[@denisetarabori553]

The Shoe House: It’s near where I lived for decades. The owner’s granddaughter married my sister-in-law’s brother so we knew each other from family get togethers. She told us the history of the shoe house and said that at one time it was an ice cream shop. I don’t know who owns it now but it is always fun to see it every time we drive by😊 Cherry Springs is just a few miles from my home town and where I have returned in my retirement. It is a State Park. There are very large telescopes there (most owned privately) but some can be used by visitors. The rules are strict regarding visitors not creating light pollution while there. There is a huge viewing field. And my family and I and hundred of others take blankets and lie down on our backs to gaze away. Be aware that the nights are cold up here in these mountains even in the summer. So dress in layers and take extra blankets and even pillows if you need them to prop up your heads. Also visit the pavilion with twin fireplaces on each enclosed end. Great park for picnicking!! Do you know about the Kinzua Bridge???

[@denisetarabori553]

Or the Pennsylvania Grand Canyon or the Coudersport Ice Mine? Drive across Route 6 sometime 😁😁

[@travelawaitsyou]

Part 2 of Pennsylvania series is coming this sunday, we will be covering new hidden gems. stay tuned.

[@heaven3021]

The color is awesome.

[@travelawaitsyou]

thank you

[@johnchambers8528]

Thanks for the video showing some of the interesting places in Pennsylvania. I have been to several of the places shown. Before the road was closed I drove through Centraila several times on my way to Kenobles amusement park. You could smell the fumes from the underground fire and sometimes see smoke or steam coming out vents beside the road. I visited Hawaii and visited volcano national park. The smell of the air was similar to what was in the PA fire area.

[@travelawaitsyou]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@adcrazy6626]

#7 Windber trolly graveyard has been sold. And the cars are being sold for scrap. #6 Haines shoe house is now an Air B&B. #4 Centralia graffiti highway has been covered over with dirt.

[@travelawaitsyou]

thanks for the info.

[@VisitBucksPA]

Ringing Rocks is one of the many amazing places in Bucks County, PA!

[@travelawaitsyou]

yes it is

[@tomfinn6579]

I would add The Bicycle Museum in Pittsburgh

[@tricycleguy2657]

Didn't hear a word about Philadelphia the birth place of America... Hershey the sweetest place on earth..... Hanover the snackfood capitol of the world UTZ, Snyders, middlesworth...Bethlehem steel, the pa farm show, Lancaster county amish community... Indian echo caverns...Williams grove historical steam engine association granger show....the entire potter county... george b Stevenson reservoir/ dam, Benezette elk center, PA grand canyon.. You could spend a month exploring , and hopefully uploading..oh and Gettysburg

[@kodacres7820]

Nothing unbelievable about Philly, other than it looking like Mogadishu with a higher body count.

[@tricycleguy2657]

@@kodacres7820 maybe independence hall??? Liberty bell?? Ben Franklin???

[@joesmith9216]

Pennsylvania, has to many new yorkers now, so its getting a bad rep, BUT, MY BEAUTIFUL STATE is untouchable for it's history and physical land scape, PA is my favorite state and I may never move and would like to go out to the next life in the PA woods, PA woods is where you can dream, they are a bed of green.

[@kodacres7820]

@@tricycleguy2657 what about them? Tourist attractions surrounded by America's Mogadishu. The history in Philly is great, but now it is just that, history.

[@tricycleguy2657]

@@kodacres7820 I was simply stating that while neat, trolley cars pale in comparison to the founding of the USA

[@edmaz2]

another cool mini trip is the Millersburg Ferry - its seasonal. So small last time I used it my car (heck probably any car, it only carries 3) caused a noticeable listing of the ferry.

[@johnnycotrel7413]

I thought it was the old woman who lived in the shoe? This is just a small portion of the many places you can visit in Pa. The Kinzua bridge is well known, Kinzua rimrocks Kinzua dam, Allegheny state park which is in both Pa and Ny. Sinnemahoning State park which has the Stevenson Dam, Oh and we also have a small version of the Grand Canyon in Pa. But research it and you will find many great places to visit and if you get anywhere near Portville, Ny go to Spragues family restaurant it is a great place to eat.

[@paulmaher2392]

Brilliant video ❤

[@travelawaitsyou]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@Finnador]

You might want to bump-up your KZbin to 9. Add the abandoned Turnpike with the Sideling and Ray's Hill tunnels. Also Penn's Caves; the only cavern in the US that you can travel through by boat.

[@travelawaitsyou]

we will cover more topics on penn in upcoming videos.

[@Finnador]

Thanks! Both places are worth visiting. And Kinzua Bridge Overlook is nice too; as long as you don't have a fear of heights.

[@TaxTimeForever]

1:44 All the way back in the one thousand nine hundred forty S- that’s when double u double u two was!

[@Desco9111]

Tell us you use an AI voice app without telling us you use an AI voice app. And play that ex-ylophone.

[@paintedwolf8394]

I have driven by the shoe house hundreds of times. I remember as a kid I thought an old lady lived in it. I also used to drive through Centralia a lot when i was going up to Sullivan county when i was a kid. It was so mind blowing to think that that we were driving through a town on fire and people would be sitting on their front porch.

[@travelawaitsyou]

[@winfieldclark8992]

Cherry Springs is in Potter County - about 4 hours NW of Allentown

[@AnnaBrown-h4e]

Thank you. Maybe ypu could add the 911 Memroial, the giant windchime where flight 93 went down, at Stonecreek.

[@001lrolon]

I live like 10 minutes away from the shoe house, and every time I pass by, it amazes me.

[@travelawaitsyou]

glad to hear that

[@beeenn649]

The way he said xylophone cracks me up.

[@travelawaitsyou]

lol

[@Schwansonian_Townsonian]

Yeah, AI can't pronounce words properly.

[@RobertDean-x5e]

Bot

[@05steelersrule08]

I've lived my entire life in PA and the only one of these places I'd ever previously heard of was Centralia.

[@travelawaitsyou]

[@a.carter3120]

Good ol’ Ringing Rocks 🪨🛼😅

[@williamwells1862]

lYeah I had dis as a kid in summers outside Stewartsville, NJ. Really awesome.

[@travelawaitsyou]

Very cool!

[@michaelokeefe8709]

Check out the WAGNER FREE INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE in North Philly, by Temple. An incredible museum of natural history right out of the 1800's.

[@davidboyce8683]

It really is a beautiful state.

[@travelawaitsyou]

Yes it is.

[@robertfeinberg748]

Mutter is like Wister Inst, on Penn campus 36th St.

[@debracoleman2112]

I live about a 10 minute drive from Centralia... my relatives lived there and l was born in 1962 so it was a nice small town and l have a lot of fun memories from then ! We are all related to coal miners.l am a proud coal miners daughter 😁

[@travelawaitsyou]

Oh wow!

[@mikejohn0088]

Coal miners are a tough breed working long hard hours under ground. I can't imagine doing that day in, day out breathing the coal dust in a lightly lit atmosphere, sweating profusely. It's like an introduction to hell but these men did what they had do in order to provide for their families. Much respect to you and your family my dear!

[@runningintohistory]

These are just the well known locations. It's the secret and hidden locations in Pennsylvania that fascinate me.

[@travelawaitsyou]

well check the other parts..

[@jessicalefebvre9683]

I grew up not too far from ringing rocks but have yet to go.

[@travelawaitsyou]

Thank you for sharing! It's always great to hear from someone who has a personal connection to the places I explore. Let me know if you ever get the chance to visit the ringing rocks!

[@jessicalefebvre9683]

@@travelawaitsyou I hope to someday once the weather breaks for the spring.

[@michaelmills5972]

What about the "Grand Canyon od PA"; just off US 6, about halfway across the state...there's also a "Santa Claus store" that's open year-round near there.

[@travelawaitsyou]

we will try to cover this in next part

[@Peggybk]

You can even arrange to have your wedding reception at the Mutter museum!

[@yammietits5040]

Cool 😎

[@travelawaitsyou]

thanks

[@pfwww12]

I love Pennsylvania. Every town is fillled with Row homes. Lots of electric lines and lots of street signs. Little Philadelphias all over pa

[@travelawaitsyou]

[@def1791]

You don’t have a clue what your talking about. It’s not at all like that “ all over pa “.

[@computershutoff13666]

I've been to Centralia and that shit was crazy only a couple of houses and one church there.

[@TreyveonMoses-m6j]

Pennsylvania is a very amazing state with great laws and citizen protection. Leaving off Philly just isn't right. It's a mix between Chicago and New York but actually liveable 365 days a year and enjoyable.

[@travelawaitsyou]

glad you liked it :)

[@beverlydiltz2604]

I grew up by the Avondale mines. One thing they always had a canary down there because of gas.

[@DirtRoadTherapy]

Shoe house is under new ownership and will be an AirBNB soon! I also have a video on my channel where we tour some beautiful areas of Bucks County and checked out Ringing Rocks

[@alisonpettit1185]

I’m from Philly. I went to Europe and while I was in the History of Vienna Museum I thought to myself “I live in the city where the Constitution was signed. I hardly know any of the history of Philadelphia except the Liberty Bell, Betsy Ross House and Independence Hall because I had a field trip in 3rd grade.”. I’d LOVE to go to Cherry Springs to see the stars. My bf could care less about stars so I gotta find a way to convince him to go there.

[@loge10]

Where did you come up with the sign for Centralia that's misspelled? I've been there dozens of times over the last almost 40 years - going back to when there was still a town, even though it was still being gradually demolished - and I don't recall any such sign.

[@therealDJGroo]

gotta love bot videos...incorrect as always...the Trolley graveyard is no more...sold to a scrap company during the summer.

[@jar407]

they were too far gone, septa had any that the bodys were still reparable they had new trucks installed and rewound the moters. the PCC was one of the very few designed by comittie things built. the last GM bus built by comittee but government not transport people looked futurestic but was overpriced , over weight, windows were sealed and the engine was too small but PCC will still be running at 100 yrsold

[@antoniotassi253]

So i just looked up the trolly graveyard in Windber,pa and it says that they are going to sell the trolly cars for scap now starting in 2024 and the article was over a year ago so it probably already started

[@daren7889]

Too bad they can't make old trolleys into houses for the Homeless! Might be a great project for a Voc- Tech High school to tackle! 🤔🤔🤔🤔Teach students essential skills and help solve housing problems! 🤔🤔🤔🤔Retired Teacher here 37 years! 🤔🤔🤔Just an idea!

[@LiberaceFan]

Excellent idea!!!

[@Sharky_cat718]

I live there all my life

[@walterzimmerman9018]

You're wrong about them, not knowing how the fire started in Centralia. They used to have a garbage dump that they would sit on fire, and they moved it to another place, and when they set it on fire and went down into the coal mine in the coal mines been on fire ever since.

[@jamesemert9625]

The only place I had not heard of was Randyland. And the only other place I have not been to was Centralia.

[@ramcharger9146]

I go off-roading through a lot of these places

[@MrsCraigJrPhiladelphia]

❤🇺🇲🦚🦚🦚

[@coolrunnings9506]

Tina & Rick ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@ronaldswangler2538]

When i was kid we use to go to ringing rocks all the time.

[@travelawaitsyou]

you must have had a great time

[@sarcrazy530]

Trollies still run across PA, mainly Philly and Pittsburgh.

[@travelawaitsyou]

thanks for the update.

[@JayKarpwick]

And the suburbs adjoining Philly. There's two traditional lines with overhead catenary, and another line that uses third rail power. They're considered to be among the last - or THE last - interurban lines still running. In fact the 101 line runs down the main drag in Media, the only town that still has trolleys* on its "high street". (*) rather than "trollies"

[@danno9608]

Narrator must be a synth-otherwise good stuff. The shoe house is in York PA and can be seen from Rt 30.

[@travelawaitsyou]

we are working on audio. thank you

[@michaelboykin9881]

The fire started when the town council voted to burn the trash dump. The fire worked down into underground Fischer's and started the coal and gas burning. They never managed to get water all the way down to the massive underground fire. Geologist say it could burn for hundreds of years.

[@williamwells1862]

Yeah. I went by thers. So Unreal. I saw the smoke coming up.

[@imdurmac1]

i visited the Shoe house! :) so cool.

[@travelawaitsyou]

great to know that

[@chaotictattoo]

A what a phone?!

[@vickismith3052]

I live in PA and never heard of these places my family was borning in the early 1900 and they never heard of these places where are they at I would like to now

[@SandraAbate]

Zombie trolley movie perfect location

[@travelawaitsyou]

for sure!

[@TheGreatGig73]

Pennsylvania is an interesting state. Passed through it many times

[@travelawaitsyou]

[@amymertz3070]

I live in Pennsylvania for my whole life and been through Centralia and it’s not that smoky all the time