The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

A miniature golf course crafted inside the world's largest simulated cave.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

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

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

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

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

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

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

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

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

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

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

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

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

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.