Places semken Wants to Go

This shale formation along the Appalachian Trail once inspired the third president of the United States.

A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

The remains of one of the last mining camps developed on the New River.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

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

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

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

One of the few surviving examples of the first lock and dam system built on the Ohio River.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

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

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

You can still shop in one of West Virginia’s oldest stores.

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

An actual piece of the Moon, brought down to Earth by Apollo 15.

Welded sphere dropped from space.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The only mine for rare earth elements in the United States has been intermittently active since the 1950s.

Concentrated around the Dead Sea, these surprising canyons are filled with coursing water, fish, and even crabs.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This community museum preserves the largest collection of Coal Age fossil plants in Maritimes.

A literal in-depth look at one of the United States' most cherished coal mines and the questionable working conditions of its laborers