Take a walking tour through the only Edgar Allan Poe house that's still standing today.

The pomegranate has long been a symbol of health, fertility and resurrection. See how it has been depicted in centuries of art from a variety of cultures.

Take a guided tour of three routes that prisoners used to escape the Penitentiary and discover how the routes have changed over the years.

Take a guided tour of three routes that prisoners used to escape the Penitentiary and discover how the routes have changed over the years.

Feel the rhythm feel the rhyme, get on up its South Philly time! Take a tour with Philadelphia Urban Adventures as they guide you through the best of South Philly. Make sure to ask the tour guide to stop for a cheesesteak.

Features a night of music, videos and a documentary celebrating Manchester post-punk group, The Fall.

Features photographs of filling stations from the '20s to the '60s to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the American oil industry.

Get a taste of the town. This food tour takes the research out of dinning out. While tasting some of Philly's famous musts (Cheesesteaks and cheesewiz fries, soft pretzels, tomato pie, 4th Street Cookies and chocolate covered pretzels) you'll also get all the insider tips to classic Philly dinning. There's nothing tourist about this local's immersion tour.

Features model and life-sized airplanes, a flight simulator and sound effects that are designed to make you feel as if you're in the middle of a live air show.

Features a variety of Benjamin Franklin's belongings and inventions, including a lens, lightning rod and bifocals.

Participants are invited to create an on-the-spot special edition zine.

A weekly potluck during which open discussions are held with artists, writers, curators and anyone interested.

The reading group will discuss texts relating to the session's theme of politicized art and its contradictions.

Features a massive model of a human heart that you can walk through, and which has interactive stations that pertain to blood, health, anatomy and heart ailments.

Channel your inner hippie and take a walk through gardens.

Features bird specimens and nests on display. Highlights include an extinct passenger pigeon and 3-D dioramas of the birds in their habitats.

Get to know Philadelphia's frightening favorites from Mr. Poe to Mr. Franklin himself on this tour through Old City and Society Hill.

Take a tour with a local guide who will show you around the city's lesser known neighborhoods — on a horse, of course.

Dig out those rainbow-colored toe socks and that glittery midriff top for this class, where you'll dance to divas' hits and firm your tush at the same time. Fun attire is strongly encouraged.

The highlight of this exhibition is a complete horse and man armor from the early 16th century.

Features examples of contemporary evening wear designs that were given as gifts to Tom Marotta, the vice president of couture for Saks Fifth Avenue.

Features a selection of sculptures from the titular Japanese-American artist. Many of Noguchi's sculptures have untouched surfaces of stone, as he believed that sculpting should maintain the original form of its materials.

The Philly artist will share three short films centered on perseverance and transcendence.

This West Philly emergency shelter needs volunteers to help with childcare, tutoring and parenting classes. Call Jacqueline Berry at 215-426-8610, ext. 274, or e-mail jberry@lutheransettlement.org.

Features refractor and reflector telescopes that provide an up-close look at planets, stars and other galaxies.