A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.

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.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

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

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

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

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

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

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

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

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

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

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

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.

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

Once an unstoppable source of gold and silver, this town came to a grinding stop when the groundwater proved deadly.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.