Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Virginia

While in Virginia, you might enjoy a visit to:

30 tons of hard, shiny anthracite were used in its construction.
~40 miles from Roanoke.

Commercial cave. Showroom dummies enliven the tour of this natural nuclear survival bunker. "All our tours are based on Creation using the King James Version of the Bible."
~40 miles from Roanoke.

A local family unearthed the largest diamond ever found in North America and kept it in their tool shed for years.
~47 miles from Roanoke.

Home of "Bat Boy" (according to the Weekly World News), a show cave in which a guy once sat on a stalagmite for sixteen butt-numbing days.
~47 miles from Roanoke.

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