Nominated by locals

Palace of Gold

A hidden gem in West Virginia

Built by hand by Hare Krishna devotees on a Moundsville hilltop, a gilded, mirror-and-marble shrine rising out of the northern panhandle hills like something teleported from another continent, with rose gardens.

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