Brooklyn, West Virginia
Red Ash Island Cemetery
The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.
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Brooklyn, West Virginia
The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
An extravagant western hotel where every floor is the "ground floor."
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.
Scarbro, West Virginia
Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
Braddock, Pennsylvania
These disused steel furnaces are now haunting ruins that may one day be a national park.
Monteagle, Tennessee
This mansion turned restaurant was once a pitstop for Al Capone during his travels.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A quiet, gothic haven nestled between Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill and Point Breeze neighborhoods.
Dayton, Tennessee
The site of the Scopes Trial contains a small exhibit dedicated to the famous case.
South Park Township, Pennsylvania
One man's real life disfigurement inspired a lasting local legend surrounding an eerie tunnel.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The last street in Pittsburgh that's paved with wood.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.
Ansted, West Virginia
The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.
Manitowaning, Ontario
Lake within a lake.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
This public park was the site of the largest civilian disaster of the Civil War.