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

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

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

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Rural churches in the middle of nowhere with religious frescoes by famous artist.

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

This pre-Revolutionary War grist mill ground corn and flour for soldiers in seven American wars.

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

The ruins of this Thomas-Jefferson-designed mansion have been left to crumble since the Christmas Day they burnt down.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This scented city oasis was a labor of love.

This nine-story building can be played like an instrument.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

Conjoined twins Daisy and Violet Hilton were stars of the vaudeville circuit.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

Within this lovely Richmond cemetery lie the remains of famous Virginians and some of Edgar Allan Poe's most beloved family and friends.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents are sitting in a field in Virginia.