The Great Philadelphia Balloon Race, and that time a crash landing ended in a $1,000 robbery

Launched at the Bicentennial, the annual airborne event petered out in the '90s.

Secret Philly: Fair Hill examines the 19th Amendment’s meaning and history

The North Philadelphia burial ground was backdrop for the movements for women’s suffrage and civil rights.

William Penn kept enslaved people. These are some of their names.

An important piece of Pennsylvania's founder's legacy.

The first census, a stubborn City Council and tossing the ‘horseshoe’: How Philly invented the common street address system

Ever wondered where those fractional house numbers come from?

This Philly park was the country’s first botanical garden

Started by a Quaker farmer, Bartram's Garden is now embedded in the fabric of Southwest Philadelphia.

Secret Philly: When Rittenhouse Square was the city’s Gayborhood

In the ‘50s and ‘60s, men who hung out south of the park were known as the “Spruce Street boys.”

How the Municipal Services Building became Philly’s most polarizing government tower

The Brutalist structure was once considered revolutionary.

10 underrated Philly books to devour in the quarantine era

Buy them online to support local independent booksellers.

These ‘escape communities’ avoided death as Philly succumbed to the 1918 flu pandemic

Bryn Mawr College and Princeton University were quarantine and social distancing early adopters.

When Philly abolitionists opened the first women’s medical school in the world

The college was run by woman deans for nearly a century.

Inside the money museum hidden a block from Philly City Hall

Take a selfie in a stagecoach and feel the weight of gold.

There’s a cool free light show inside the Ritz-Carlton’s historic dome

Grab a bottle from the champagne vending machine and check out the display.

Inside Marian Anderson’s South Philly home, where the classical singer made history

Because she was Black, the contralto gained international renown before she was recognized in her native city.

Secret Philly: How the City Hall clocks adjust for Daylight Saving Time

The 235-pound minute hands have to be manually adjusted.

Secret Philly: How a movie magnate built the ‘most important’ Rodin museum

Jules Mastbaum amassed one of the world's greatest sculpture collections, then gifted it to the city.

From Nazi cargo ship to Philly party boat: Life and times of the Moshulu

Before it was docked on the Delaware, 115-year-old vessel sailed all over the world.

Secret Philly: Inside one of the nation’s largest collections of LGBTQ history

Thanks to a $300k grant, the archives housed at William Way are finally getting proper treatment.

Memories from a Fishtown public pool that disappeared 50 years ago

Newt's swim spot was a community hub.

This Rittenhouse mansion hosts an international TV studio and Jackie Kennedy’s favorite fireplace

Stotesbury Mansion is home to a social club and an Emmy-winning series.

Inside Pennsylvania Hospital’s surgery theater, where patients screamed and women were jeered

Male doctors performed operations in "The Dreaded Circular Room."