West Virginia
Find West Virginia travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
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Discordant Notes At Organ Cave
Ronceverte - The subterranean redoubt of Organ Cave in West Virginia has always been more than just another hole in the ground. For a time it advertised itself as an “ark of safety” from nuclear bomb blasts. Full story
Featured Attractions
Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine
Beckley, West Virginia
Ride a coal car into a forboding mine, and find out who left their teeth in the water bucket.
West Virginia State Farm Museum
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This collection of old farm buildings and exhibits has many dead animals -- including a two-headed calf -- in its Morgan Museum, and a separate exhibit of General, the world's largest stuffed horse.
Coal Houses
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
Built in 1959 from 30 tons of hard, shiny anthracite coal. It has served as a West Virginia visitors center.
West Virginia State Penitentiary Tour
Moundsville, West Virginia
Learn what it's like to live behind bars -- for an hour or so.
Mystery Hole
Ansted, West Virginia
"See the unbelievable." "Not responsible for accidents or after effects." "Shoes recommended."
Lost World Caverns
Lewisburg, West Virginia
Home of "Bat Boy," cave where a guy once sat on a stalagmite for 16 days.
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Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Ansted: Mystery Hole [tips]
- Beckley: Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine
- Chester: World's Largest Teapot [tips]
- Fayetteville: World's Longest Single Arch Steel Span Bridge
- Grafton: International Mother's Day Shrine
- Green Bank: National Radio Astronomy Observatory [tips]
- Harpers Ferry: John Brown Wax Museum [tips]
- Horse Shoe Run: Smallest Church in 48 States
- Huntington: Pink Elephant [tips]
- Lewisburg: Lost World Caverns
- Moundsville: WV State Penitentiary [tips]
- New Vrindaban: Palace of Gold
- Philippi: Mummies of the Insane
- Point Pleasant: Farm Museum
- Point Pleasant: Home of Mothman [tips]
- Ronceverte: classic brochure text from Organ Cave [tips]
- Sam Black Church: Ghost Trial Marker
- Sarah Ann: Hatfield & McCoy's Graves [tips]
- Shepherdstown: Little House for Lab Brats [tips]
- Talcott: John Henry, Steel Drivin' Man
- Wheeling: Madonna of the Trail
- White Sulphur Springs: Atomic Bunker for Congress
- White Sulphur Springs: Coal Houses
- Williamson: Coal House
