Places mmhales Wants to Go

This rural bridge gave the government of West Virginia a red scare.

In West Virginia, you can walk across the longest single-arch bridge in the Western Hemisphere.

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

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

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

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

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

A museum dedicated to the legend of Bigfoot in the Appalachian Mountains.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

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

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

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.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

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

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

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

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

Here lies Zona, whose ghostly testimony led to her husband’s murder conviction.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

Under some of the darkest skies east of the Mississippi, this park invites you to look up into the Milky Way.

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

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

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