Philadelphia Sights

  1. Adventure Aquarium

    Just across the Delaware River in otherwise missable Camden, NJ, is the excellent Adventure Aquarium, featuring globally themed creature exhibits like the West African River Experience, Penguin Island, a coral station of colorful Caribbean fish, a shark tank and an archway where you can pass under schools of fish. To get there, just hop on the RiverLink Ferry (www.riverlinkferry.org) which runs hourly from Penn's Landing.

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  2. National Constitution Center

    The National Constitution Center, right next to the visitor center, makes the United States Constitution sexy and interesting for a general audience through theater-in-the-round reenactments. There are exhibits including interactive voting booths and Signer's Hall, which contains lifelike bronze statues of the signers in action.

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  3. Philadelphia Zoo

    Within Fairmount Park's borders is the Philadelphia Zoo, the country's oldest, which has tigers, pumas, polar bears - you name it - in naturalistic habitats.

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