Places GeneralWaffles Wants to Go

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

Charleston's historic city jail once held everyone from pirates to Civil War POWs.

The oldest bridge in South Carolina may have been designed by the same man who created the Washington Monument.

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

South Carolina's last remaining slavery auction house is now a museum devoted to its own tragic history.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.

According to local lore, this narrow passageway through two large rocks was accidentally created by the devil himself.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

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

Once home to a booming 19th-century oil town, the park now houses a World War II submarine memorial complete with a torpedo.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.