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

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

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal 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.

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

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

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

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

This striking Victorian Home with its 113-foot turret is best known as the site where abolitionist John Brown was executed in 1859.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In 1952, a strange encounter in the woods of West Virginia led to the legend of a 10-foot-tall monster with glowing eyes and a distinctive style.

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

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

A monument marks the location of the first successful steamboat demonstration.

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

This tiny man looms large over downtown Charleston.

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