Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia offers exactly that raw, unfiltered connection to the past – a crumbling cathedral of correction that draws visitors from every corner of Pennsylvania and ...

Baldwin’s Book Barn in West Chester isn’t just another bookstore—it’s a bibliophile’s paradise that defies our digital age with unapologetic analog charm. This literary labyrinth houses over 300,000 ...

The Philadelphia Water Department credits the improvements to the Flat Rock Dam Project. The project reconnected the Manayunk ...

Academy of Natural Sciences entomologist Greg Cowper says spotted lanternflies are primed for a population explosion.

It opened two centuries ago as the original home of The Franklin Institute. In 1938, it became a museum for Philadelphia’s history. And for eight decades, the neoclassical building at 15 S. Seventh St ...

The Philadelphia City Planning Commission plans to survey land use this summer, documenting property uses and structures but ...

President Donald Trump’s administration says it has cut tens of millions of dollars in research funding from universities and research centers in Philadelphia. The Inquirer has been tracking these ...

The city’s open data list just 14,000 vacant properties — 6,300 vacant lots and 7,700 vacant buildings — leaving nearly two-thirds of previously identified vacant properties unaccounted for.

Accessible via 15th & Market Sts, City Hall Station and Walnut-Locust Station subway stations. The busiest part of Philadelphia is downtown or Center City, where the old and the modern come together.

There’s no geological artist quite like Earth’s plate tectonics. Thanks to this ongoing operation, we have mountains and oceans, terrifying earthquakes, incandescent volcanic eruptions, and ...

Keeping them occupied, however, shouldn’t cost an arm and a leg. From summer concerts to movies in the park, here is a list ...

Most, when prodded, give a playful shrug at the curious phenomenon at Long Island's Plainview-Old Bethpage John F. Kennedy ...