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The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

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

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

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.

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

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

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

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

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

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

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

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

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

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

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

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

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

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