Places Charles WV Wants to Go

Built in 1347, this belfry is one of the oldest in the world and survived intense bombing during World War I.

This bunker in northern France was built by Nazi German forces with the intention of launching up to 50 V2 rockets at London each day.

This disused boat elevator was saved from the scrap heap so that visitors could tour its rusting skeleton.

Underneath a chalk hill in France lies what Hitler hoped would be the underground launching base for a devastating new weapon.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

Quite possibly the last cross all humans will ever see.

This historic fort spans more the 300 years.

Toxic waste disaster that founded the Superfund program.

The seat of Buffalo government is a gorgeous Art Deco palace.

A forsaken wonder in the middle of the East Side neighborhood.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

Take an underground boat ride through a former hydraulic raceway that was built in the late 19th century.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

This small road tunnel is the only place where you can cross beneath the Erie Canal.

The birthplace of America's favorite fruit-flavored mystery dessert.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

A bar, burger joint, and arcade housed in a late 19th-century church building.

Where the Millerites gathered to watch the end of the world in 1844—and left disappointed.

This New York estate was designed to resemble a medieval Scottish castle.

Eclectic architecture in the woods of New York.

An old dining hall now serves up ghost stories for lusty locals.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.