Places summermaddux Wants to Go

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Catch rising stars of Appalachia’s music scene before they make it big at this restaurant and community hub.

The lasting remains of a historic spa.

West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.

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

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

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

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

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

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

A giant time capsule not scheduled to be cored until 2040.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.

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

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

A melancholy guardian doubles as a judicious godmother to this small town cemetery.

This general store is more than a century old and home to various oddities and antiques.

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

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

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

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

The "mysteries" of this quintessential roadside oddity were almost destroyed by neglect but were saved by fans of kitschy wonder.

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