Things to do in Philadelphia, PA - Philadelphia Attractions

• Eastern State Penitentiary
  Opened on October 25, 1829, the Eastern State Peniteniary was considered the most formidable,state-of-the-art prisons ever constructed. Looming over Philadelphia on a lonely hilltop was this massive institution symbolizing the epitome of prisoner isolation. Today, it is a popular attraction featuring historic exhibits such as: Ghost Cats, Pandemonium, portraits of inmates on death row, The End of the Tunnel, Penitentiary Cell, decades of prison films and My Glass House.
  
  
• Please Touch Museum
  Boasting to be the premier children's museum of Philadelphia, Please Touch provides a unique experience for learning though play. Children can visit a life size Alice in Wonderland, drive a tractor in Barnyard Babies,  take the wheel of a real bus, venture into the pages of Maurice Sendak, put on their tool belts and build a construction project, be part of a theater performance featuring music, movement, and puppetry or frolic through the kids store filled with an assortment of selected books and games.
  
  
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
  In Washington Square, one of the parks drawn up by William Penn in 1682 is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. After the Square was laid out, the park was used for a different purpose for nine decades -- as a potter's field to memorialize deceased strangers. These are those lost strangers whose stay in Philadelphia proved to be a lot longer than they had previously anticipated.  In 1778, the Washington square would be used as the repository for soldiers who were brought from nearby battles or those who were sick from disease. Many of the prisoners that died at Washington Square were subjected to the harsh conditions of the Walnut Street Jail and later interred here.