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

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

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

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

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

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

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

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

The ghost town that was one of New Hampshire's first settlements now exists as a park detailing its history.

Nature and religion are reunited at this unconventional church in the forest.

Once the future of underwater combat, this old sub is now open for visitors to muck around in.

A very big rock just plopped down in the New England woods.

One New Hampshire alleyway has become home to a public gallery of feline art.

The site where Poe "in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance" likely died.

A priceless collection of the Nation's cryptologic history.