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

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

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

The center preserves and houses artifacts ranging from the colonial era to modern times from across Appalachia.

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.

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

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

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

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

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

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

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