Places joyzbst Wants to Go

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

This campus monument honors Katherine Johnson, who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first human spaceflight and safely land Apollo 11 on the moon.

A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.

Step into the courtroom to learn details of the only case in history where ghostly testimony led to a murderer's conviction.

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.

You can still shop in one of West Virginia’s oldest stores.

The oldest hotel in West Virginia is reportedly frequented by ghosts.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

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

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

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

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

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

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.