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This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

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

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

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

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.

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

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

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

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

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

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

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

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

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

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

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

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

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