West Virginia Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball West Virginia places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Alderson: Culvert Pipe Hot Dog
Ansted: Mystery Hole
Antioch: Log Cabin Birthplace of Lincoln's Mom
Barboursville: Pink Elephant
Beckley: Exhibition Coal Mine
Beckley: Peace Totem with Propeller and Time Capsule
Bluefield: School with Most Multi-Level Entrances
Bramwell: Home of the Millionaires
Bridgeport: Front Lawn Giraffe
Buckhannon: Tiny Church
Charleston: Controversial Statues
Charleston: Shoney's Big Boy Museum
Charleston: West Virginia Lincoln Melancholia
Chester: World's Largest Teapot
Chloe: Grave of Mike Fink
Coalwood: Space Shuttle Replica
East Jesus: Mystery Three Crosses of Mercy
Eleanor: Paul Bunyan and Babe
Elizabeth (Burning Springs): Rathbone Well
Elkins: Statue of Minnehaha
Elkins: Tiny Church
Ellenboro: Hillybilly Marble Maker Sam Hogue
Fairmont: Coal Country Miniature Golf
Fayetteville: Bridge Walk: 88 Stories High
Fayetteville: World's Longest Single Arch Steel Span Bridge
Flatwoods: Replica Space Monsters for Sale
Grafton: Anna Jarvis- Mother's Day
Grafton: Mother's Day Shrine
Green Bank: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Harpers Ferry: John Brown Wax Museum
Harpers Ferry: National Paranormal History Museum
Harpers Ferry: Where to Go in a Nuclear War
Helvetia: Swiss-themed Village
Hilltop: Skyline Drive-In: Hank's Last Stop
Hinton: Big White Teddy Bear on Cliff
Horse Shoe Run: Tiny Church - Our Lady of the Pines
Huntington: J. Taylor Auto Collection
Huntington: Museum of Radio and Technology
Huntington: Pink And Green Giraffe
Hurricane: Water Monster's Daughter
Kenova: The Pumpkin House: 3000 Jack-o-Lanterns
Kermit: Giant Kermit the Frog - Vague Recollections
Kingwood: 1937-era Esso Gas Station
Lesage: Hillbilly Hot Dogs - We Got the Weenies
Lewisburg: Lost World Caverns - Home of Bat Boy
Martinsburg: Giant Crab
Morgantown: Don Knotts Star
Moundsville: Circus and Carnival Mini-Museum
Moundsville: Grave Creek Mound
Moundsville: Marx Toy Museum

Moundsville: West Virginia State Penitentiary Tour
Mount Storm: Birthplace of Lincoln's Mother
New Vrindaban: Prabhupada's Palace of Gold and City of God
Nitro: Paul Bunyan and Babe
Oak Hill: Hank Williams Gas Station of Death - Gone
Oak Hill: Hank Williams, Dead Here
Odd: A Town Named Odd
Odessa: Marker: Original Golden Delicious Apple Tree
Parkersburg: Muffler Man
Parkersburg: Oil and Gas Museum
Parkersburg: VP Aaron Burr's Death Mask: Seditionist Island Utopia
Peterstown: Marker: Home of the Jones Diamond
Philippi: First Amputation of the Civil War
Philippi: Mummies of the Insane
Point Pleasant: Chief Cornstalk's Vengeful Bones
Point Pleasant: Mothman Museum
Point Pleasant: Mothman Souvenirs
Point Pleasant: Mothman Statue
Point Pleasant: Paddleboat - Captain's Creamery
Point Pleasant: Silver Bridge Disaster Memorial
Point Pleasant: West Virginia State Farm Museum
Richwood: Muffler Man - Bunyan
Rio: Rio Rock Turtle
Riverton: Seneca Caverns
Ronceverte: Organ Cave
Rowlesburg: Cool Springs Park
Rowlesburg: Greatest Generation Society Museum
Sago: Sago Mine Disaster Monument
Sam Black Church: Greenbrier Ghost Trial Marker
Sarah Ann: Burial Ground of the Hatfields
Seneca Rocks: Smoke Hole Caverns
Shepherdstown - Harpers Ferry: Little Vernon
Shepherdstown: Little House for Lab Brats
Shinnston: Giant Coal Miner Charlie
Silver Lake: Smallest Mailing Office - Post Office
Slaty Fork: Sharp's Kissing Bridge
Sutton: Pose with Flatwoods Monster
Talcott: John Henry Statue
Thurmond: Coal Mining Ghost Town
Unger: The Farnham Colossi
Weston: Free Speech Stump
Weston: Mountaineer Military Museum
Weston: Museum of American Glass in West Virginia and National Marble Museum
Weston: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum
Wheeling: Madonna of the Trail
White Sulphur Springs: Coal House
White Sulphur Springs: The Congressional Bunker
Whitesville: Coal Mine Disaster Memorial
Williamson: House Made of Coal

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Hurricane: Paul Bunyan Eatery - Gone
Morgantown: Biblical Scenes with Store Mannequins - Gone

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