Eastern State Penitentiary
A former prison and National Historic Landmark, which once housed notorious criminals like bank robber Willie Sutton and Al Capone the former tunneled out, and drew famous visitors like Charles Dickens and Alexis de Tocqueville. It was a progressive institution upon its founding, dedicated to reform, rather than punishment, and the principal new method used to enable the reform process dubbed the Pennsylvania System was to keep prisoners in separate confinement it was then debated whether this would help lead to reform or to mental illness. Today it is open for guided tours by day, and by night around the month of October turns into what has got to be one of the country's most terrifying haunted houses! Children below the age of seven are not permitted to visit, and it's strongly recommended that no children under thirteen attend the haunted house.
Fairmount Park
(http://fairmountpark.org/) consists of 63 regional and neighborhood parks, spanning both center city and part of western north philly. when you want to get away from the city's hustle and bustle, there is always somewhere green to go.
Wagner Free Institute of Science
The Wagner Institute’s nineteenth century exhibit hall – a soaring three-story space – houses an extraordinary collection of natural history specimens including mounted birds and mammals, fossils, rocks and minerals, insects, shells, dinosaur bones, and the first American saber-toothed tiger, discovered on a museum-sponsored expedition to Florida in 1886. Gathered largely by founder William Wagner and Institute curators and faculty during the nineteenth century, the collections are displayed in cherry-wood and glass cabinets dating from the 1880s and maintain their original “systematic” scheme, providing a rare view of a Victorian science museum. Highlights include William Wagner’s personal mineral collection – one of the oldest in the country – and his fossil collection, representing many important European and American localities and collecting sites of the nineteenth century. The mounted skeletons, skulls and skins represent species from around the globe, including many that are now endangered. The extensive regional entomology collection is notable for its arrangement, which includes the original handwritten curator’s labels. Originally assembled to teach science, the specimens are arranged for study. The exhibit is one of the largest systematically arranged collections on display in the country and remains in active use as a key educational tool of the Institute’s free science programs. It also serves as a resource for scholarly research.
templetown
The IBC Fittness Center
The Student Pavilion
The Student Activity Center SAC
The Liacouras Center
Pearl Theatre
The IBC Fittness Center is located at the corner of 15th street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, the entrace is located off of 15th street and is located across from the parking garage. The IBC is opened to all students, faculty, staff, and alumi. Those who do not carry a Temple University ID card can still get in by paying an entrance fee of 12$ for a day. The IBC offers plenty of fitness equipments such as bench presses, treadmills, let-workout machines, and many others. It also offers an indor track, an indoor racquet ball court, and offer table tennis.
The Student Pavilion is located at 1901 N 15th street across from the Turf Complex. It is opened to all Temple University's students, faculty, and staff. Non Temple University ID holders can still get in by paying 12$ for a day pass. The Student Pavilion offers recreational sports such as basketball, vollyball, badminton, table tennis, tennis it offers 6 outdoors Tennis Courts, in-door Golfing Range, and football. Equipment for all of the sports are offered for rental at the front office but a Temple ID card is needed to rent one. Every Friday the Pavilion also hosts Net Night only Badminton, Vollyball, Table Tennis, and Tennis is offered from 7PM to 10PM, tournaments in those sports are sometimes held with prizes.
The Student Activity Center is located at 1755 N 13th Street. It is the center for all of Temple University student organizations. It offers a food court that contains various forms of dining choices from Italian pizza, Asian cuisine, and a Burger King. It also offers a Game Room where a Temple ID card is not necessarily needed. It offers table tennis, billiards, air hockey, foosball, and chess. You need to pay an hourly fee in order to rent the table tennis, billiards, and air hockey equipments. The SAC also has an underground movie theater, the "Reel" Cinema and an underground night club, "The Underground."
The Liacouras Center is on 1776 N Broad Street. It is 10,200 seat multi purpose venue. It is home to all of the Temple University's baketball home games as well as many other events such as concerts, plays, famous guest speakers. The calendar of events can be found on the Licacouras homepage at: www.Liacourascenter.com
Temple University also offers art and culture entertainment buy holding free Classical music concerts, art galleries, and student theather productions. The concerts are usually located in Rock Hall and you can find a schedule on the Easter Boyer College of Music and Dance website. For the art galleries you can find information about them on the Tyler School of Art website.
Theater and music
Walking Fish Theatre
This theater offers acting classes, workshops, shows, and hires interns from local performing arts high schools. The website for the Walking Fish has a calendar of events, a donation link, as well as a link for renting out the venue.
The Electric Factory
The Electric Factory is one of the leading indoor music venues and is Philadelphia's most celebrated location for live music.