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This steam locomotive served as both an interesting static display and unique playground equipment since 1959.

A year-long seasonal produce clock highlighting a variety of fruits and vegetables from across the Piedmont region.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

Colorful murals stationed throughout Charlotte bring poetry to everyone.

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

Rare videos and memorabilia await visitors inside this unique store.

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

Once the home of a noted Civil War spy, the two-story brick house now serves as a museum.

The legacy of the Ohio-founded Fostoria Glass Company lives on in West Virginia.

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

Dedicated to the largest armed uprising in American history since the Civil War.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

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

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

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

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

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.

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

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

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.