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

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

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

A curious collection of oddities including a lock of Alexander Hamilton's hair and Harry Houdini's ouija board.

One tiny triangular park commemorates the victims of a yellow fever epidemic—many of whom are buried right below the grass.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

A lightship turned museum, outfitted with artifacts from the vessel's past as part of the U.S. Lighthouse Service.

Get up close and personal at this Fresnel Lens.

This cannonball stands as a reminder of the final act of a fleeting governor amidst a revolution.

The childhood home of the famous general's mother is now a small, walled garden.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Affectionately known as "Lord Bot," this historic statue has a cult social media following and rightly claims to be “the most metal inhabitant of the Wren Yard.”

America's first public mental health facility.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.