A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

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

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

This isn't your average roadway—it's actually a National Park and a transportation pioneer.

This campus chapel is Robert E. Lee's final resting place and a topic of debate about the legacy of the Civil War.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

A former Confederate hospital serves as a remembrance of wounded and dead soldiers.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

Forget Hollywood, one of the biggest stars in the world can be found in Roanoke, Virginia.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

One street divides a single town that stands in two U.S. states.

The highest point in Virginia can only be reached by passing through ponies and flowers.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

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

The oldest arched-covered bridge in Virginia has truly withstood the test of time.

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.