Gauley Bridge, West Virginia
Cathedral Falls
The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Gauley Bridge, West Virginia
The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Gilbert, West Virginia
Sample original Hatfield family moonshine at this distillery in southern West Virginia.
Eggleston, Virginia
Dine in a former general store from the Roaring Twenties, when Eggleston was a hot springs boomtown.
Cass, West Virginia
Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.
Dayton, Virginia
One of the last active volcanoes on the Eastern seaboard.
Quicksburg, Virginia
An enormous warehouse filled with parade floats collected from over 50 years of patriotic celebrations.
White Post, Virginia
Outsider art meets paleontology at this roadside reptile repository.
Front Royal, Virginia
This sprawling farm was once a Cold War-era hideaway for the nation's top diplomats.
Urbana, Maryland
Not all airplanes are found in hangars or on runways, but this wayward fuselage seems out of place in its odd rural resting place.
Herndon, Virginia
An out-of-place Air Force radar dome is all that denotes this park as a former missile launch site.
Great Falls, Virginia
The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.
Fairfax, Virginia
Collecting 700 years of mechanical death-dealing, the NRA's sprawling gun museum is a revealing testament to the American obsession with armament.
Fairfax, Virginia
A lone historical marker off the highway and scattered debris are all that remain of this Cold War-era missile site.
Fairfax Station, Virginia
This Virginia railway overpass is said to be haunted by a serial killer in a rabbit costume.
Lorton, Virginia
This field of concrete was once an active defense site armed with nuclear warheads.
Culpeper, Virginia
A bunker "with enough U.S. currency to replenish the cash supply east of the Mississippi" in the event of nuclear war now protects nitrate film.
Brandy Station, Virginia
At Brandy Station, Civil War soldiers left their mark on the battlefield and the walls of this small wooden house.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.
Natural Bridge, Virginia
A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.
Bedford, Virginia
A glimpse into the sacrifices of military members during World War II.
Sutton, West Virginia
A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.
Grafton, West Virginia
A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.