Places pickininparsons Wants to Go

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

A macabre farm reserved part of its 222-acres for dead bodies, all in the name of science.

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 former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

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

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

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

An overgrown collection of miniature buildings still stand as evidence of one couple's obsession with The King.

A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.

Step into a converted schoolhouse packed with radios, ham gear, and a century of broadcasting history.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.

A former mental hospital founded in the 1930s by a eugenicist who advocated for the forced sterilization of patients.

This harrowing climb along West Virginia's jagged spires is one of the only Via Ferrata on America's east coast.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

This California artist's front yard acts as a gallery for his unique, scrap metal animal sculptures.

These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.

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