Set amid the greenery of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, the Dell Music Center is a beloved outdoor amphitheatre with a long history of bringing music to the city's communities. Located on Strawberry Mansion Drive, the venue began life in the 1970s as the Robin Hood Dell East and has since become a treasured summer institution, particularly known for its celebration of soul, jazz, gospel, R&B and other genres rooted in the city's rich musical heritage. The amphitheatre is an open-air affair, wi.....

The first radio broadcast of a college football game, the first stadium scoreboard, the first two-tiered stadium in America - and it is still hosting games 131 years on. Franklin Field, at 235 South 33rd Street on the University of Pennsylvania campus, was dedicated on 20 April 1895 for the first running of the Penn Relays, and the NCAA recognises it as the nation's oldest stadium still used for college football. The original 100,000-dollar wooden stands gave way in 1922 to the brick U-shaped l.....

On the central campus of the University of Pennsylvania in west Philadelphia, the Penn Museum (formally the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology) is one of the most important university-affiliated archaeology and anthropology museums in the world. The museum was founded in 1887, with its handsome Italian Renaissance-style main building completed in December 1899 to house the rapidly growing collections from the university's extensive programme of international archae.....

At the base of the celebrated stone steps leading up to the Philadelphia Museum of Art at the western end of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Rocky Statue is one of the most photographed pieces of public art in the city. The 8-foot 6-inch bronze sculpture, weighing approximately 2,000 pounds, was created by the Colorado-based sculptor A. Thomas Schomer and commissioned by the actor Sylvester Stallone for use in the 1982 film Rocky III, in which the heroic boxer raises a triumphal arm in front .....

The second stage started as an experiment on bare grass with Sigur Ros as the lab rats. Skyline Stage at the Mann sits at the top of the hill above the Mann Center's main pavilion at 5201 Parkside Avenue in West Fairmount Park, piloted as a temporary build in July 2012 to test whether the orchestra's summer home could carry a festival-format venue on its unused upper acres. The experiment stuck: the stage joined the seasonal calendar with a 500-to-7,500-person general admission range, trading t.....

Built for the United States Bicentennial and opened on 14 June 1976, the outdoor amphitheatre in West Fairmount Park was created as a new summer home for the Philadelphia Orchestra, succeeding the ageing Robin Hood Dell where the orchestra had performed since the 1930s. Originally named Robin Hood Dell West, it was renamed the Mann Music Center in 1979 for businessman and music patron Fredric R. Mann, became the Mann Center for the Performing Arts in 2000, and was rebranded the Highmark Mann in .....

They call it the Cathedral of College Basketball, and the pews end right at the court. The Palestra at 235 South 33rd Street on the University of Pennsylvania campus opened on January 1, 1927, with Penn beating Yale before roughly 10,000 fans - the largest crowd ever to watch a basketball game on the East Coast at the time, thirty-six years after Dr. Naismith hung his first peach basket. Architect Charles Klauder - designer of Franklin Field and college campuses across America - delivered the b.....

The venue exists because one Philadelphia concertgoer got tired of smoky rooms, tinny sound and shows that started at eleven. Hal Real's answer opened on October 2, 2004 at 3025 Walnut Street in University City: World Cafe Live, a two-room house of music sharing its building with WXPN, the University of Pennsylvania radio station whose syndicated World Cafe program lends the venue its name. The partnership was the founding stroke - WXPN had outgrown its old studios in a Spruce Street mansion, R.....