roadeside america is the greatest. I found many of my pennsylvania destinations there, including my favorite, centralia - www.plipplip.com/mt/archiv...02_09.html

yep, plenty
scranton's known as the electric city- in 1887, it was the first penna town to install an electic trolley.
there's a great elcetic sign commerating this-- www.geocities.com/historicscranton/ (scroll down halfway to see a pic of the old sign lit up)
there's the trolley museum itself- www.ectma.org/museum.html
there's an anthrocite museum with a trolley ride that goes down into the mine (www.phmc.state.pa.us/bhsm/to...tage.asp
one of the biggest mine subsidences in the history of the city happened scant few blocks away from my high school in the mid 80s. a 200ft crane and it's operator fell through a capped air shaft, some 700ft (well, maybe it wasn't quite that deep, but it did take personnel several days to uncover the tip of the crane).
the entire valley, in fact, is riddled with subsidences of varying degrees of destruction- houses, cars, people swallowed or almost swallowed, air shafts opening up in back yards.
there used to be a thriving lace industry in scranton. i remember going to the lace factory down the street with my mom to buy discounted seconds. the factory building was pretty cool.
there's the scranton/wilkes-barre red barons, boston red sox's farm team. the area also hosts a semi-pro football team (scranton eagles)- if i'm not mistaken, the team has ties to both the philadelphia eagles and new england patriots.
scranton used to be a major destination for train travel. the old station (www.geocities.com/historics...Lacka.jpg) was converted into hilton years ago (my prom was held there). now there's a decent train museum and the steamtown mall complex downtown. i hear rail service is set to start up again to ny in a few years.
scranton also used to be the proving ground for broadway plays. if the production bombed in scranton, they didn't even bother opening in nyc.