The building of the old Town Hall is a special architectural monument for the city. It was erected at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. From the moment of its construction, the Town Hall is one of the highest buildings in the city. Its main architectural feature is a high tower. The 11-meter statue of William Penn adorns its top. Nowadays, an amazing historical building is considered a monument of national importance.
Amateurs of unusual excursions will be interested in visiting the Eastern State Prison, which was founded in 1829 and worked until 1969. Many world-known criminals were kept in prison cells. Following the closure of the prison, its corps have been neglected for a long time. In 1994, they decided to convert them into a thematic museum. Visitors can see a lot of interesting artifacts and even visit the cell Al Capone was serving his sentence in 1929.
One more world-famous attraction of Philadelphia is an original house, called the Magic Gardens. The author of the unusual construction is a famous avant-garde artist I. Zagar. He built an extraordinary house with a unique design. It is a complex maze of numerous terraces, staircases, and grottoes. All the walls have a unique finish. They are totally covered with a variety of finishing elements: tiles, items of old dishes, wooden accessories, old toys, and other household items. You can see hundreds of accessories decorating them.
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