- National Constitution Center Featuring America’s most successful export — the U.S. Constitution
- Federal Reserve Bank Little bags of bucks for sale
- African American Museum Another Philly Phirst
- Franklin Square Try a Square Burger
- Dexter House Site From carriages to cars
- U.S. Mint The world’s largest money-maker
- Christ Church Burial Ground More Signers planted here
- Benjamin Franklin’s Grave Was his casket a cask of Madeira?
- Arch Street Friends Meeting “No steeple house ways”
- Old First Reformed Church Not the Friends but the friendly
- St. Augustine’s Church Even George Washington kicked in $5.00
- St. George’s Church The only German church named for England’s patron saint
- Painted Bride Art Center Zany outside and in
- The Chocolate Works How sweet it is!
- Clay Studio First with First Fridays
- Fireman’s Hall Museum Three centuries of no smoking
- Elfreth’s Alley But where did Jeremiah Elfreth live?
- Betsy Ross House Did she or didn’t she?
- Statue of Tamanend From noble Native American to Tammany Hall
- Penn’s Landing Here comes this unusual Englishman
- Franklin Court A country house in the city
- Franklin’s Print Shop America’s first media mogul
- Mikveh Israel One of the oldest
- Free Quaker meeting House Those fightin’ Quakers
- Museum of American Jewish History Bigger and better
- The Bourse From livestock to lunchmeat
- Old City Hall Better than being ‘fleeced’ in New York
- American Philosophical Society America’s first ‘think tank’
- APS Library Books for the working class
- Ben Franklin Toga Statue We won the war, let’s have a toga party
- Second Bank of the U.S. Only a 20-year shelf life
- National Liberty Museum International heroes
- New Hall The Navy and the Marines
- First Bank of the United States The eagle has landed
- Treasurer’s House site Where the buck got more bang
- Merchant’s Exchange Not Wall Street, Third Street
- City Tavern “The finest meal ever laid upon a table”
- Welcome Park Philly in miniature
- Bishop White House A peek at the upper class
- Dr. Rush House site Bleeding and purging on the lawn
- Powel House “Another sinful feast”
- Society Hill Towers From traders to high society
- Man Full of Trouble Tavern Short of cash, full of mischief
- Head House/Newmarket Colonial shopping mall
- Kosciusko House Brilliant Revolutionary War engineer
- St. Peter’s Church Washington slept here
- Old Pine St. Church Both sides of the war planted here
- Physick House Father of American Surgery and ‘Soda’s Pop’
- Old St. Mary’s From hidden to ostentatious
- Philadelphia contributionship Oldest corporation
- Greentree Insurance Philadelphia’s first green movement
- Robert Morris Statue From riches to rags
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- Statue of Commodore Barry The Navy’s true founder
- Independence Hall The lightning rod for 18th century change
- Curtis Publishing Center Greatest publishing empire
- Congress Hall Famous floor fight in the oldest Congressional building
- Liberty Bell Famous for what the Constitution left out
- President’s House Site Our first Oval Office?
- Independence Visitors Center In the thick of it
- Lit Brothers From one small store to a full block
- Declaration House A document you could bank on
- Atwater Kent Great city stuff
- Jewelers Row Legendary trove
- Washington Square How unknown is that soldier?
- Athenaeum Plans for the Capitol dome and more
- Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church Site for African-American leadership
- Pennsylvania Hospital For the “deserving poor and the lunatics”
- Mikveh Israel Cemetery That famous 19th century beauty
- Joseph Bonaparte House The ‘good Bonaparte’ and retired king
- Walnut Street Theatre Oldest English-speaking theater
- Thomas Jefferson Hospital More doctors than anyone
- Avenue of the Arts 19th to 21st century triumphs
- Kimmel Center The Roman arch etched in glass
- Academy of Music Oldest continuously used music hall in America
- Union League Union powerhouse
- Bellevue Stratford Political deals in luxurious quarters
- Ritz Carlton Hotel Classical forms, modern amenities
- Claes Oldenberg’s Statue It’s a kiss. No, it’s a clothespin
- City Hall The world’s greatest pile of bricks, stone and mortar
- William Penn Statue Facing the wrong way?
- Reading Terminal Head House Headquarters for that Monopoly game railroad square
- PSFS “Pat’s Steaks for Supper” or “Philadelphia Saving Fund Society”?
- Wanamaker Building OK, only the second largest pipe organ in the world
- Masonic Hall Exotic architecture and Washington’s apron
- Frank Rizzo’s statue Bigger than life
- Academy of Fine Arts An architect’s mad dream of a building
- Love Park What starts in Philadelphia ends up everywhere
- Liberty Place Its spire pierced the construction code
- Rittenhouse Square Ritzy and oh-so-French
- Curtis Institute Incubator for first chairs and Eddie Murphy’s front door
- Church of Holy Trinity “Oh Little Town of Bethlehem” in big city Philadelphia
- Comcast Building The new media empire
- Logan Circle More traffic, fewer executions
- Franklin Institute An electrifying experience
- Free Library Visit Edgar Allan Poe’s actual raven
- Benjamin Franklin Parkway Making the city beautiful
- Rodin Museum The thinking man’s museum
- Philadelphia Museum of Art Rocky’s rise to fame in 97 easy steps
- Waterworks Tourist attraction and wonder of the 19th century world
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