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Links to Info About Philly (updated 05/27/2025)

Updated: May 27


Food



A must do....... The Reading Terminal Market FREE Until you want to buy food



Cool City Views FREE

Run up the Rocky Steps at the Art Museum, jump up and down with your fits in the air, and enjoy the view. Then catch your breath, you are at the back of the art museum. Walk to the other side, and look out from the front, you are looking out over the Schuylkill River. Walk down the hill and enjoy a great stroll along the east bank of the Schuylkill River and Boat House Row. Boat House Row is a historic site and exactly what the name implies. There are 15 houses, owned by social and rowing clubs. Each building houses the racing shells used by many of the local university sculling teams. There is a big race every year called, the Dad Vail Regatta.


Also, check out this list of great Top Ten Views, like Cira Green, a park on the roof of a skyscraper!

Weird and Sometimes Makes you Queasy



Also Weird and wonderful Philly Magic Gardens (This has nothing to do with my tour, it is a magnificent art installation). If you like this stuff, here is a map to all sorts of FREE installations nearby, go on a scavenger hunt and see a bunch!


Your Cable Bill Dollars at Work

FREE - Watch a short movie inside The Sphere of the Comcast Center and at the Comcast Experience


Science Lovers - Walk through a gigantic heart! The Franklin Institute (great for kids of all ages)


OTHER FREE FUN STUFF - good with & without kids!


OTHER FREE FUN STUFF - good with kids

Once Upon a Nation Master storytellers, will thrill your kids.


Fun stuff for 2026, the 250th birthday of America!!


Here's a more detailed look at some of the key events:

 
 
 
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A POETIC EXPLANATION
OF THE TOUR

With apologies to Edgar Allan Poe

 

If within the month October, you search Google over and over,

“Things to do in Philly, that I'll love for sure”

If your tired, nearly napping, aimlessly the keyboard tapping,

As if someone gently rapping, rapping at your inner core.

Tis the voice of history, that tapping, tapping at your inner core

“You should take a walking tour!”

 

With each Spring it's time to amble, get your shoes and start to ramble, 

Flowers blooming over bramble, brings a stirring to the fore.

Eagerly, you’ll set to walking – north and south a vision stalking

With your soul you will start talking - talking of a walking tour.

Of a Great Philadelphia Comedy Magic Walking Tour

Something you’ve not done before.

 

It has history only using, little bits that are amusing,

Editing the tedious details, that can be a bore

Tour reviews are all resounding,  the experience is quite astounding,

There is magic so confounding, it’s a mixture that has much allure.

Philadelphians do love this weird addition to their culture

Something that they just adore

 

Find our posts on social media, Tripadvisor and Expedia,

Facebook, Instagram and more.

Tell your friends and tell your Mom, click www.phillymagictours.com

Read reviews, you’ll want to come,  in groups of 2 or 3 or 4

Behind the Bourse we start, come straight avoid detours

You’ll talk about it evermore……

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