Places marykate Wants to Go

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

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

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

A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.

A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

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

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

Step into the courtroom to learn details of the only case in history where ghostly testimony led to a murderer's conviction.

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

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

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

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

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

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

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

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

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

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.