A "hospital" where people went to be quarantined, die, and be buried in the yard.

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.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.

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

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

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

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

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

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

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

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

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.