Allegheny County 25
25 places to explore in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania — part of the Pittsburgh & Its Countryside region.
Public Gardens 2
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Pittsburgh Botanic Garden
Former coal-mining land west of the city, being healed into a botanic garden of woodland walks, display gardens and a lotus pond fed by treated mine water.
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Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens
Orchids, tropical forest rooms and seasonal flower shows fill a glittering 1893 Victorian glasshouse in Schenley Park, beside a pioneering green building.
Museums 11
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Kamin Science Center
Formerly the Carnegie Science Center and renamed the Kamin Science Center in 2025, with hands-on exhibits, a planetarium, a detailed miniature railroad and village, and the submarine USS Requin outside.
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The Frick Pittsburgh
Henry Clay Frick's restored mansion, Clayton, along with a car and carriage museum, an art museum and a greenhouse on landscaped grounds.
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Andy Warhol Museum
Seven floors devoted to Andy Warhol, with paintings, films, time capsules and a room of floating silver pillows to play among.
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Carnegie Museum of Art
Ancient to contemporary art, a Hall of Architecture filled with plaster casts of great buildings, and the long-running Carnegie International exhibition.
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Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Dinosaurs posed in lifelike scenes, among them Dippy the Diplodocus and the first Tyrannosaurus rex ever described, plus a dazzling hall of minerals and gems.
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Children's Museum of Pittsburgh
Hands-on play for kids in the old Allegheny post office and Buhl Planetarium buildings, with a makerspace, water-play room and art studio.
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Fort Pitt Museum
Inside a reconstructed bastion of the 1760s fort at the Point, exhibits tell the story of the French and Indian War and the struggle for the forks of the Ohio.
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Heinz History Center
Western Pennsylvania history in a former ice warehouse in the Strip District, with sets from Mister Rogers' Neighborhood and a sports museum full of local legends.
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Mattress Factory
Room-size art installations you walk into, including permanent works by James Turrell and Yayoi Kusama, in former factory buildings on the North Side.
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Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall and Museum
Built to honor Civil War veterans, this grand Beaux-Arts memorial hall now salutes all branches of the military, with artifacts from the Civil War to recent conflicts.
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Randyland
Randy Gilson's riotously colorful folk-art house and courtyard, painted in every hue and filled with found objects, a favorite photo stop in the North Side's Mexican War Streets.
Historic Sites 5
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Duquesne Incline
A cable railway of 1877 climbing Mount Washington in its original wooden cars, with an observation deck looking straight down onto the rivers, the Point and downtown.
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The Frick Pittsburgh
Henry Clay Frick's restored mansion, Clayton, along with a car and carriage museum, an art museum and a greenhouse on landscaped grounds.
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Cathedral of Learning
Rising 42 stories at the heart of the university campus, a Gothic skyscraper with a vaulted stone Commons Room and the Nationality Rooms, classrooms styled after cultures worldwide.
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Hartwood Acres
A 1920s Tudor-style mansion and its stables sit amid rolling meadows and woods, with house tours, trails and summer concerts on the lawn.
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Monongahela Incline
Opened in 1870 and widely described as the country's oldest continuously operating funicular, it climbs Mount Washington from Station Square to the overlooks on Grandview Avenue.
Public Parks 5
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Point State Park
At the tip of downtown, where the Allegheny and Monongahela meet to form the Ohio, with the great fountain, the Fort Pitt Museum and the 1764 Blockhouse from the frontier fort.
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Schenley Park
A big wooded park on the edge of the university district, with Phipps Conservatory, the trails and lake of Panther Hollow, a public golf course, a running track and an ice rink.
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Frick Park
Wooded ravines and miles of trails make up the largest of the city's parks, a bequest from industrialist Henry Clay Frick, with an environmental center and a lawn bowling green.
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Allegheny Islands State Park
Three undeveloped islands in the Allegheny River, reached only by boat, where paddlers can pull up on wooded shores and watch for herons and other river wildlife.
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Hartwood Acres
A 1920s Tudor-style mansion and its stables sit amid rolling meadows and woods, with house tours, trails and summer concerts on the lawn.
Hiking Trails 1
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Frick Park
Wooded ravines and miles of trails make up the largest of the city's parks, a bequest from industrialist Henry Clay Frick, with an environmental center and a lawn bowling green.
Theme Parks 2
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Sandcastle Waterpark
Tall slides, a wave pool and a lazy river on the banks of the Monongahela River, with plenty of room for an all-day summer outing.
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Kennywood
Perched on a bluff above the Monongahela, a classic amusement park and National Historic Landmark, with vintage wooden coasters like the Jack Rabbit alongside modern thrill rides.
Zoos & Aquariums 2
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National Aviary
Free-flying birds share walk-through habitats with visitors at this zoo just for birds, where penguins, owls and parrots star in close-up encounters.
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Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium
African elephants, gorillas and big cats live at this hillside zoo in Highland Park, which also has an aquarium and a Kids Kingdom play area.