Places Rural Exploration VA Wants to Go

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.

A former 19th-century tavern, famous for its peach brandy and honey concoction.

Thousands of unique minerals, including some of the most impressive fluorite crystals in the world.

The only building in Louisville (hopefully) that contains two ancient holy skeletons.

This grave marks the final resting place of a legendary frontiersman... unless it doesn't.

This abandoned cemetery has a dark past of bodies buried over bodies.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

This modern castle sat empty for decades before a fire inspired its builders to complete its luxury halls.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

Built in the 1850s, this church was of the first five churches constructed in Harper's Ferry.

Endless rows of boxes of paper records line the hallways of the archaic federal facility where guns are traced.

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.