We rarely give much attention to how we get where we're going. But an unusual museum in Philadelphia pays homage to our feet and what we put them in. WFMZ's Karin Mallett takes us on this week's One Tank Trip to the TUSPM Shoe Museum.

  >> REPORTER: It's a collection that would make even Imelda Marcos jealous. There are roughly 900 pairs of shoes in the collection at Philadelphia's Shoe Museum, housed inside Temple University's School of Podiatric Medicine. The tour starts on the 6th floor... where from time to time, you'll have to move aside for students and staff to pass by. 

>> BARBARA WILLIAMS: Most of the exhibits are on the floor with the dean's office, the business office, the library. So people go and come and they are used to us. 

>> REPORTER: If you take the time to browse, you'll never quite think of your feet the same. 

>> WILLIAMS: You kind of get an appreciation for what you don't pay any attention to until it hurts. 

>> REPORTER: Our feet may hurt for good reason.. just look what we've been cramming them into. Pointy shoes have always been popular. The oldest pair date back to 200 BC.. Egyptian Burial Sandals. From flats to heels.. the highest pair is from the 1890s.. at a whopping 6 inches. 

>> WILLIAMS: And I cramp when I even think of getting up there to where it. 

>> REPORTER: But the bulk of the shoes are one's you'll remember. Straight out of the 60s, Ella Fitzgerald's gold boots.. Want to be a foot taller? 12 inch high Doc Martaans. And from 1972, Sally Struthers blue platforms. You may have loved Lucy but it looks like she loved shoes, these silk sandals were worn by Lucille Ball. If you grew up in the 80s, you wore jellies.. and in the 90s, Joan River was wearing manolo blahniks.. And you would have seen these in the White House. The shoes of four first ladies. 

>> WILLIAMS: I'm going to work on Hillary and I'm going to work on Michelle. 

>> REPORTER: There are already shoes of the greats.. Mike Schmidt's cleats, Andre Agassi's Nikes and Dr. J's Converse. Ready to go shoe shopping on a One Tank Trip to The Shoe Museum in Philadelphia, Karin Mallett, 69 News Berks Edition.

Karin's trip to and from the Shoe Museum put 114 miles on her odometer and took one hour and 10 minutes.

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