Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

Now harmless, this looming post struck fear into the heart of medieval troublemakers.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

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

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

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

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

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

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

Once home to a booming 19th-century oil town, the park now houses a World War II submarine memorial complete with a torpedo.

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

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

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

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

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.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

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

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

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

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

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.