A novelty hotel but completely fun, especially if you've got kids: standard motel rooms, TV and mini-fridge included, are wedged in the narrow confines of a collection of caboose cars of every shape and color, apparently purchased for a song just before they were heading to the scrap heap. The surroundings – a green quilt of farmland – are lovely.
Red Caboose Motel
Pennsylvania Dutch Country
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Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
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Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site
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4. Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
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7. North Museum of Nature & Science
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