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The center preserves and houses artifacts ranging from the colonial era to modern times from across Appalachia.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

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

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

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

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

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

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

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

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

Every Friday night, Appalachian string-bands turn this country store and soda fountain into a raucous jamboree.

In 1952, this restaurant began selling the Colonel's “secret” recipe.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

A crack flared at the base provides a pathway completely through a sandstone ridge near Moab.

It's safe—and permitted—to walk across these twin natural sandstone arches.

These tall, red sandstone pinnacles outside Moab are often forgotten amid their more famous neighbors.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.