Top 10 Places

10. Borough of Ohiopyle and Ohiopyle State Park

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9. Fort Necessity National Battlefield

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8. Moravian Church Settlements in the Moravian Bethlehem district of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania – World Heritage Tentative List

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7. Pocono Mountains and Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area (NPS) (shared with New Jersey), plus Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, Lower Delaware National Wild and Scenic River (shared with New Jersey), and Upper Delaware National Scenic and Recreational River (shared with New York)

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6. Pittsburgh

• • • Point State Park
    • Carnegie Institute and Library
    • Andy Warhol Museum
    • Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood – Heinz History Center
    • Meadowcroft Rock Shelter
    • Duquesne and Monongahela Inclines up Mount Washington

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5. Gettysburg National Military Park, and the nearby Eisenhower National Historic Site – also not too far off is the Pennsylvania part of the Appalachian Trail

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4. Valley Forge National Historical Park and the Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area

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3. Pennsylvania Dutch and Amish Country

• • • Fort Zeller in Newmanstown
    • Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Stouchsburg
    • Ephrata Cloister
    • Lancaster Central Market
    • Strasburg & Intercourse
    • Lititz Moravian Church Square
    • Hans Herr House and Eastern Woodland Longhouse
    • Daniel Boone Homestead

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2. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater – part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Buildings World Heritage Site; in the Laurel Highlands

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1. Philadelphia

• • • Independence National Historical Park and the Liberty Bell (Independence Hall – a World Heritage Site)
    • Chemical Heritage Foundation
    • Philadelphia Museum of Art
    • City Hall tour and Love Park
    • Reading Terminal Market
    • Pat’s King of Steaks and Geno’s Steaks

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State Info

A) State Nicknames+

• • • The Keystone State
    • The Independence State
    • The Quaker State
    • “Virtue, Liberty, and Independence”

B) State Symbols

• • • Game Bird: Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus)
    • Tree: Eastern Hemlock (Tsuga canadensis)
    • Flower: Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
    • Animal: Whitetail Deer (Odocoileus virginanus)
    • Dog: Great Dane (Canis familiaris)
    • Fish: Brook Trout (Salvelinius fontinalis)
    • Insect: Firefly (Photuris pennsylvanica)
    • Beautification and Conservation Plant: Penngift crownvetch (Coronilla varia)

C) Major Metros

1. 1. 1. Philadelphia
      2. Pittsburgh
      3. Harrisburg (state capital)

D) Honorable Mentions

• • • Allegheny National Forest and Allegheny National Recreation Area
    • Allegheny Portage Railroad National Historic Site
    • Steamtown National Historic Site
    • Friendship Hill National Historic Site
    • Oil Region National Heritage Area
    • Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
    • French Creek State Park

E) Just for Fun

• • • Hershey’s Chocolate World

F) Iconic Foods

• • • Philly Cheesesteak
      1. Pat’s King of Steaks
      2. Geno’s Steaks
    • Scrapple
    • Stromboli (1950)
    • Lebanon Bologna
    • Pennsylvania Dutch Pot Pie
    • Molasses Shoofly Pie
    • Hershey’s Chocolate
    • Pretzels
    • Hires Root Beer (1876)
    • Birch Beer

G) Science Fun

• • • Town of Centralia
    • Joseph Priestley House in Northumberland

H) Honored Memory

• • • Flight 93 National Memorial
    • Johnstown Flood National Memorial