Catch rising stars of Appalachia’s music scene before they make it big at this restaurant and community hub.

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

West Virginia’s first state park commemorates one of the state’s last significant Civil War battles.

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

The oldest hotel in West Virginia is reportedly frequented by ghosts.

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

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

West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.

Step back in time at this historic variety store, packed with items from a bygone era.

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

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

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

This claimant to the title of "smallest church in the 48 states" doubles as an equally tiny, quasi-post office.

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

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

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

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

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

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

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

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.