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

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

A lone grave is quietly tucked away in Kanawha Riflemen's Memorial Park.

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

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

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

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

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

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

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

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

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

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

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

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

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.