This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

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

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

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

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

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

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

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

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