Take a walk through history in Strasburg at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, housing more than 100 locomotives. Modeled after a train shed, the museum showcases one of the largest and most significant collections of historic railroad artifacts, locomotives and rolling stock in the world.The museum >>

Jog across the field and dive behind bunkers to avoid being marked at the All-American Paintball Park in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. Whether it’s played inside or outdoors, paintball is a fast-paced game that requires skill, dexterity and speed. Grab your opponent’s flag without being splattered with paint >>

For a mountain biker like yourself, if it isn’t a challenge, it isn’t fun. So we’re here to report that less than one mile into the singletrack trail system at Moosic Mountain in northeastern Pennsylvania, you’re bound to wonder what you were thinking. Opened last fall, >>

Kids live for that precious 30 minutes of recess during school, and a day at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, is like recess on overdrive, for little ones as well as parents. This museum is the world’s only space devoted to >>

Calling all future Einsteins. The Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh, one of the nation’s premier science museums, is an inventive spot to have fun while molding a young mind. For a getaway that’s as exciting as it is educational, get to the Science Center stat — >>

Andy Warhol once noted that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes, and the legendary artist may be right, courtesy of the reality television age. However, Warhol failed to comment much on his own fame. Thanks to an enormous and acclaimed body of work, the man >>

Go beyond passive observation and learn for yourself how things were done in days past. Butler County Community College’s Heritage School at The Conservancy in Butler, Pennsylvania, gives adult students ample opportunities to learn the how-tos of everything from blacksmithing to basket weaving to playing folk >>

Tucked away in small-town southern Illinois is a unique rural treasure that is home to quite an exotic family. With alpacas, llamas, donkeys, sheep, peacocks, potbelly pigs, emus, swans, zebras and camels, Rainbow Ranch Petting Zoo & Exotic Farm in Nashville, Illinois, rivals even the best >>