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West Virginia Visitor

As part of the West Virginia Destination Challenge, this badge celebrates the beginning of your journey through West Virginia's remarkable places. Every place you mark brings you closer to discovering more of what makes the Mountain State unique.

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Ford's Route 66 Exploration Challenge

You explored one of America's most iconic highways by marking at least three remarkable places along historic Route 66.
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25 States Visited

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Places I've been

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The Maribel Caves Hotel is located next to a park that shares its name.

Maribel, Wisconsin

Maribel Caves Hotel

These rural ruins are of a Midwestern hotel that was once an elegant spa for the wealthy, then a gangster’s hideaway, and finally a haunted retreat.

American Giants Museum

Atlanta, Illinois

American Giants Museum

A small museum celebrating the fiberglass giants that are icons of America's highways.

Prairie Peace Park House

Permanently Closed

Pleasant Dale, Nebraska

Ruins of Prairie Peace Park

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

Runoff Collection Pond from Mine Tailings in Leadville Mining District.

Leadville, Colorado

Leadville's Abandoned Silver Mine

Abandoned silver mine strewn with wrecked and twisted structures.

Gilpin's Falls Covered Bridge

North East, Maryland

Gilpin's Falls Covered Bridge

The longest-covered bridge in the state of Maryland.

Wilson Greatbatch's tool box.

Clarence, New York

Greatbatch Barn

This exhibit pays tribute to the “humble tinkerer” who invented the implantable pacemaker.

Paulding Light

Bruce Crossing, Michigan

Paulding Light

A mysterious light in the wood, rumoured to be the the ghost of a railroad brakeman.