The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA · est. 2022

When the Palestra opened at the University of Pennsylvania in 1927, it was a marvel of engineering—one of the first steel-and-concrete arenas, and the first in the country built without sight-blocking pillars. Named for the ancient Greek wrestling school, it became the beating heart of college basketball in Philadelphia, home to Penn's teams and the storied Big 5. Generations of fans have packed its stands, earning it the nickname 'The Cathedral of College Basketball.'

Philadelphia, PA · est. 1971

In 1821, a group of Philadelphia apothecaries gathered at historic Carpenters' Hall—the same building where the First Continental Congress had met—to found a college that would raise pharmacy from an informal trade into a trained profession. Incorporated the following year, it became the first pharmacy school in the United States. Its founding reflected the young republic's broad push to professionalize the sciences and safeguard public health.

Philadelphia, PA · est. 2002

The paleontologist and zoologist Edward Drinker Cope lived and worked in this Philadelphia neighborhood in his later years, producing a torrent of scientific papers that described hundreds of fossil and living species. He is best remembered for the "Bone Wars," his fierce, decades-long rivalry with Othniel Charles Marsh of Yale to unearth and name new dinosaurs. Their competition, however bitter, dramatically expanded American knowledge of prehistoric life.

Philadelphia, PA · est. 1997

Philadelphia-born Vincent Persichetti became one of his city's most respected twentieth-century composers, producing nine symphonies alongside a vast body of instrumental and choral music. A 1939 graduate of the Curtis Institute, he shaped generations of musicians as a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory and, for four decades, at the Juilliard School. His work bridged accessible melody and modern technique.