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

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

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

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

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

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

A brothel nestled amongst ghost towns, with an abandoned plane wreck to greet you.

Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

The largest man-made crater in the U.S. marks the spot where we once tested mining with nukes.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.