One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

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

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

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

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

The "All-Seeing Eye of God" symbol on this library is a clue to one of the many former lives of this building.

In 1869, Swiss and German immigrants settled in this small town in the mountains of West Virginia.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

An equine tribute in a charming Southern city that calls itself "The Horse Capital of the World."

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.

The final home of the most famous horse of the American Civil War.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.

This advertisement for talcum powder was painted on the rock face and has since defied removal.

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

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

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

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

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?

This elaborate towering structure was once famed for its revolutionary height.

Dine like an American revolutionary at Colonial Williamsburg.

This monument is dedicated to those lost on June 6, 1944, in the town with that day’s highest per-capita casualty rate.