Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

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

A soon-to-be-forgotten roadside spectacle loaded with local lore.

This museum is dedicated to a Hollywood icon.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

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

Locals call this magical moss-covered walkway the "Emerald Path."

These beautiful wineries were at the center of Lake Erie's "grape belt" back when the Midwest dominated American wine production.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

Smoky, also known as "Yorkie Doodle Dandy," was a four-pound hero of World War II.

This Czar-funded, onion-domed, lavishly muraled Orthodox Church played a starring role in "The Deer Hunter."

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

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.

The oldest remaining authentic Putt-Putt course that Donald Clayton created in Ohio.

A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

This shrine dedicated to the Virgin Mary is also a tribute from a mother to her fallen son.

Its vintage camera collection gives a snapshot of the past as viewed through a photographic lens.

There is beauty and history in the ruins of this former company town.