Places TeamDD Wants to Go

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

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

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

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

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

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

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

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

Smack in the midst of coal country, this collection provides a peoples' history of Appalachian miners' heritage.

A humble plaque marks the site where the country music legend was found dead in his Cadillac.

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

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

Thousands of jack o'lanterns light up Halloween at this historic West Virginia home.

A table rock formation that has been intriguing West Virginians for years.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

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

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

A historic, century-old house plopped along the perimeter of Houston's ballpark.

This stone windmill marks an old, mysterious homestead in what is now central Austin.

Once called the Jersey Lilly, this former saloon was the domain of infamous Judge Roy Bean.