Shepherdstown, West Virginia
Shepherdstown Public Library
The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.
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Shepherdstown, West Virginia
The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.
Shepherdstown, West Virginia
This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.
West Virginia
Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.
Thurmond, West Virginia
Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.
Oak Hill, West Virginia
A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.
Parkersburg, West Virginia
A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.
Wheeling, West Virginia
This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.
Halethorpe, Maryland
A winding district gerrymandered into the shape of a mantis.
Bethesda, Maryland
FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.
Ashton-Sandy Spring, Maryland
This bell is one of the last remnants of the lost city of Triadelphia.
Baltimore, Maryland
A monumental statue of RCA's mascot now sits atop a historical society roof after a life of moving around.
Oldtown, Maryland
Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.
Berlin, Maryland
The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.
Baltimore, Maryland
A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.
Sharpsburg, Maryland
A cave on the Maryland border where civilians took refuge during the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Weirton, West Virginia
In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.
Riverton, West Virginia
Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A portion of the old Pirates stadium over which a defining home run once flew still stands even after the rest of the stadium was torn down.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.
Waterloo, New York
A rusted blade sticks out from the trunk of this tree, left as a memorial to a young man who left to fight in the Civil War but never returned home.
Waterloo, New York
A historic home with ties to the abolition and suffrage movements.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
A retired firefighter created this contraption so he and his family wouldn't die if accidentally buried alive.
Williamsport, Pennsylvania
According to local myth this cemetery is half evil spirits, half good—split down the middle.