That transcendent pasta experience awaits at Ristorante Pesto, a brick-fronted Italian haven in Philadelphia serving fettuccine Alfredo so authentic it might just ruin you for all other cream sauces.

Stone walls don’t just make prisons, they tell stories – and the Old Jail Museum in Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, has some of the most spine-tingling tales you’ll ever hear whispered through century-old ...