A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

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

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

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

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

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

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

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

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

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

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

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

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

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

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

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.