Places We All Pod Down Here Wants to Go

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A lone grave is quietly tucked away in Kanawha Riflemen's Memorial Park.

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

Once home to a booming 19th-century oil town, the park now houses a World War II submarine memorial complete with a torpedo.

A beautiful hidden gem in central West Virginia.

The actor best known for slapstick comedy is memorialized in his home town.

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

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

A memorial honoring those who perished in one of the worst construction disasters in U.S. history.

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

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

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

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

The largest piece of cut lead crystal adorned a grave for 75 years and is now the shining star of a glass museum.

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

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

This former fire tower is now a rustic observatory that offers amazing views of eagles, hawks, and the Appalachian Mountains.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

The site of the one and only battle of Lord Dunmore's War.

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

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

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.