Places clpartin Wants to Go

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

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

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

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

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

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

The tragic reality of a village riddled with rumors of haunts, chemical spills, and serial killers.