Sparta, Tennessee
Virgin Falls Pocket Wilderness
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
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Sparta, Tennessee
Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.
Montreal, Québec
Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.
Montreal, Québec
A grand Gothic Revival basilica with stained glass depictions of Montreal's religious history has only one soul resting in its crypt.
Montreal, Québec
One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.
St Marys, West Virginia
A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.
Waverly, West Virginia
Once home to a booming 19th-century oil town, the park now houses a World War II submarine memorial complete with a torpedo.
Grafton, West Virginia
Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.
New Haven, West Virginia
This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.
Brooklyn, West Virginia
The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.
Salem, West Virginia
This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.
Weirton, West Virginia
In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.
Eglon, West Virginia
This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.
Lewisburg, West Virginia
Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.
Scarbro, West Virginia
Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.
Eglon, West Virginia
The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.
Washington, West Virginia
One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Chester, West Virginia
First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.
Beckley, West Virginia
A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.
Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.