Places TCrone75 Wants to Go

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

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

A windswept sandstone overlook offers sweeping views across an ancient plateau.

This rural bridge gave the government of West Virginia a red scare.

Step into a converted schoolhouse packed with radios, ham gear, and a century of broadcasting history.

The lasting remains of a historic spa.

Under some of the darkest skies east of the Mississippi, this park invites you to look up into the Milky Way.

West Virginia’s first state park commemorates one of the state’s last significant Civil War battles.

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

Dedicated to the largest armed uprising in American history since the Civil War.

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

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.

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

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

The first American woman to win the Nobel Prize in literature came from the foothills of Appalachia.

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

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.