Explore this unspoiled peninsula with 11 sandy beaches and 13 miles of hiking and biking trails (keep an eye out for soaring bald eagles overhead).

Relax over handcrafted ale and gastro-pub grub inside an iconic (and possibly haunted) train station.

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

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

A former pillar of the Black community in Ellicott City.

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

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

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

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.

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

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

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

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

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

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

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.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.

This WWII plane died a quiet death, and is now a garden eel playground.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

A glass display case holds the document that ended the Second World War—which one person signed on the wrong line.

The air force base preserves its scars from the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.