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staciday

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I am a photographer, anthropologist, and mother. My Nordic family of 4 travel the globe; we introduce our children to the world and it's many cultures for we are citizens of the world.
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Staircase of "The Castle"

Wheeling, West Virginia

Mount Wood Castle and Cemetery

This abandoned dream castle and its cemetery look out over the city that once inspired their creation.

Equal Justice Mural

Annapolis, Maryland

Equal Justice Mural

A mural honoring two trailblazing Supreme Court Justices—Thurgood Marshall and Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

Once you pass the red barn, you’re almost to Spook Hill.

Burkittsville, Maryland

Spook Hill

Near the state border, cars seem to defy the laws of physics by rolling uphill.

‘Take My Hand’

Cambridge, Maryland

‘Take My Hand’

This Harriet Tubman mural went viral for kids interacting with it.

Gilpin's Falls Covered Bridge

North East, Maryland

Gilpin's Falls Covered Bridge

The longest-covered bridge in the state of Maryland.

The Bird Calls Phone.

Takoma Park, Maryland

Bird Calls Phone

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.

Witch Board Museum Baltimore

Baltimore, Maryland

Witch Board Museum Baltimore

This small museum celebrates the history of the Ouija board and its connection to the city of Baltimore.

Glenn "Divine" Millstead's headstone

Towson, Maryland

Divine's Headstone

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

Walnut Street Bridge

Chattanooga, Tennessee

Walnut Street Bridge

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

Grounds for Sculpture

Hamilton Township, New Jersey

Grounds for Sculpture

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

The company store that once supplied necessities to the workers of the Brooklyn Mine.

Fayetteville, West Virginia

Brooklyn Ruins

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

An eight-foot bronze statue honoring the legacy of John Henry stands at the entrance of the Great Bend Tunnel in Talcott, West Virginia.

Talcott, West Virginia

John Henry Monument

This statue in Talcott, West Virginia, is an enduring symbol of American grit.

Greenbrier County Courthouse in WV

Lewisburg, West Virginia

Greenbrier County Courthouse

Step into the courtroom to learn details of the only case in history where ghostly testimony led to a murderer's conviction.

In a small town in southern West Virginia, descendants of the famed Hatfield family distill moonshine the same way their ancestors did over 100 years ago.

Gilbert, West Virginia

Hatfield & McCoy Moonshine

Sample original Hatfield family moonshine at this distillery in southern West Virginia.

Crossing the Nelson Rocks Via Ferrata bridge

Circleville, West Virginia

Nelson Rocks Via Ferrata

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

Rock-afire Explosion at Billy Bob’s Wonderland

Barboursville, West Virginia

Billy Bob’s Wonderland

This arcade is one of the last places to catch a public performance by the now-defunct ShowBiz Pizza's house band of animatronic animals.

Glade Creek Grist Mill

Danese, West Virginia

Glade Creek Grist Mill

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

West Virginia Bigfoot Museum

Sutton, West Virginia

West Virginia Bigfoot Museum

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

Over 200 headstones made up the Red Ash Island.

Brooklyn, West Virginia

Red Ash Island Cemetery

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

Henry Clay Iron Furnace

Morgantown, West Virginia

Henry Clay Iron Furnace

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

The Flatwoods Monster

Sutton, West Virginia

Flatwoods Monster Museum

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.

Tunnel entrance.

Salem, West Virginia

Brandy Gap Tunnel #2

This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.

Grave Creek Mound

Moundsville, West Virginia

Grave Creek Mound

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

Mummies of Philippi. (Virginia Wind)

Philippi, West Virginia

Mummies of Philippi

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

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