The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.