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discoverphilly.com Top 10 Philadelphia Attractions

discoverphilly.com Top 10 Philadelphia Attractions


Ten Things to Do With Kids

  1. Catch Mango the orangatan breakdance at the Philadelphia Zoo (and have the lorikeets eat right out of your hand while you're there)
  2. Take the wheel of a real bus or hop down the rabbit hole to the world of Alice in Wonderland at the Please Touch Museum for Kids
  3. Walk through the human heart, test your sports ability, board a jet fighter, or see an IMAX film at the Franklin Institute Science Museum
  4. Check out a T-Rex or visit the bumble-bee colony at the Academy of Natural Sciences
  5. Talk to a colonist in Historic Philadelphia
  6. Climb aboard a submarine (Independence Seaport Museum), or a World War II Battleship (Battleship New Jersey) on the Philly/Camden Waterfront
  7. Watch Camden Riversharks baseball on the waterfront under the twinkling lights of the Benjamin Franklin Bridge
  8. Pet a shark (if you dare) at the Adventure Aquarium
  9. Visit the butterfly garden at the Camden Children's Garden
  10. Tickle Elmo at Sesame Place

Ten Things We Bet You Can't Do in Your Town

  1. See hundreds of human skulls at the Mutter Museum of Medical Oddities
  2. Spend a day behind bars at Eastern State Penitentiary (Al Capone's former home)
  3. Experience the American Revolution as it happened, where it happened, in the world's only sound and light walking tour - Lights of Liberty
  4. See a twelve ton granite sphinx of Ramses II (circa 1293-1185 BC) at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology
  5. Hang out "where all the Hippies meet" on South Street
  6. Pitch pennies onto Ben Franklin's grave in Independence National Historical Park
  7. See the shoes of celebrities and Presidents, or see a circus giant's size 18 shoes, some of the 800 pairs of shoes at the Shoe Museum
  8. Ride a hot-air balloon up to 40 stories in the air at the Philadelphia Zoo
  9. Eat bugs at the Insectarium (Philadelphia's Insect Museum)
  10. And, of course, touch the Liberty Bell, see the room where the Declaration of Independence was signed, and visit Betsy Ross's House at Independence National Historical Park
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