West Virginia Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in West Virginia. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports.
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Alderson: Alderson Lion, Made of Junk -
Alderson: Culvert Pipe Hot Dog -
Ansted: Grave of Stonewall Jackson's Mom -
Ansted: Mystery Hole -
Antioch: Log Cabin Birthplace of Lincoln's Mom -
Aurora: Outhouse Mail Box -
Barboursville: Billy Bob's Wonderland: the Rock-afire Explosion -
Barboursville: Pink Elephant -
Bath: George Washington's Outdoor Bathtub -
Beckley: Bill Withers Statue -
Beckley: Exhibition Coal Mine -
Beckley: Mortality: Tunnel Death Statue -
Beckley: Neighborhood Menagerie -
Beckley: Peace Totem Propeller Time Capsule -
Berkeley Springs: 1920s Gas Station -
Berkeley Springs: International Water Tasting Competition -
Bethlehem: War on Terrorism Monument -
Blacksville: Jet on Old Scoreboard -
Bluefield: Gary Bowling's House of Art -
Bramwell: Home of the Millionaires -
Bridgeport: Front Lawn Giraffe -
Buckhannon: Tiny Church -
Bunker Hill: Silo Missile -
Cameron: Archive of the Afterlife -
Charleston: John Brown's Noose: WV State Museum -
Charleston: Lincoln Mourns West Virginia -
Charleston: Shoney's Big Boy Museum -
Charleston: Slack Plaza Musician Sculptures -
Chester: Mini-B-52 on a Pole -
Chester: World's Largest Teapot -
Chloe: Grave of Mike Fink -
Coalwood: Space Shuttle Replica -
Cottageville: Imitation Muffler Man -
Cotton Hill: Indian Head Rock -
Dingess: The Dingess Tunnel -
Eleanor: Paul Bunyan and Babe -
Elkins: Big Chair -
Elkins: Statue of Minnehaha -
Elkins: Tiny Church -
Elkins: Tire Minions -
Ellenboro: Marble Maker Sam Hogue -
Fairmont: Coal Country Miniature Golf -
Fairmont: Meredith Tunnel -
Fairplain: Mysterious Stone Head -
Fayetteville: America's Longest Single Arch Steel Span Bridge -
Fayetteville: Bridge Walk: 88 Stories High -
Flatwoods: Flatwoods Monster Photo-Op -
Flatwoods: Flatwoods Monster Sign -
Flatwoods: Modern Monster Chair -
Flatwoods: Replica Space Monsters for Sale - Flatwoods: The Monster That Wouldn't Die
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Gassaway: Lamp-Inspired Monster Chair -
Ghent: Ghent Explosion Memorial -
Glen: Marker: Original Golden Delicious Apple Tree -
Grafton: Dairy Queen Eskimo Sign -
Grafton: Mother's Day Shrine -
Grafton: Statue of Mother -
Green Bank: Green Bank Observatory -
Hamlin: Statue of Chuck Yeager -
Harpers Ferry: Where to Go in a Nuclear War -
Helvetia: Swiss-themed Village -
Hilltop: Sky Line Drive-In: Hank's Last Stop -
Horse Shoe Run: Tiny Church - Our Lady of the Pines -
Huntersville: Western Mini-Town Display -
Huntington: Museum of Radio and Technology -
Huntington: Pink and Green Giraffe -
Huntington: Rotating Root Beer Mug -
Huntington: Three Green Buffalo -
Hurricane: Water Monster's Daughter -
Institute: Hidden Figures: Katherine Johnson -
Inwood: Big Apple -
Kenova: Pumpkin House: 3,000 Jack-o-Lanterns -
Kingwood: 1927 Esso Gas Station -
Lavalette: Fish Feeding Frenzy -
Lesage: Hillbilly Hot Dogs - We Got the Weenies -
Lewisburg: Big Snowman -
Lewisburg: Lost World Caverns - Home of Bat Boy -
Marlinton: The Cone -
Martinsburg: Apple Time Capsule -
Martinsburg: Giant Crab -
Martinsburg: Medical Exhibit of Yesteryear -
Matewan: Corner of Hatfield and McCoy Streets -
Matewan: Matewan Flood Wall -
Morgantown: Don Knotts Star and Statue -
Morgantown: Morgantown's Monorail -
Moundsville: Crashed Airplane Planter -
Moundsville: Grave Creek Mound -
Moundsville: Marx Toy Mural -
Moundsville: West Virginia State Penitentiary Tour -
Mount Nebo: Only Lighthouse in West Virginia -
New Cumberland: Sea Monster, Scrap Art Creatures -
New Vrindaban: Prabhupada's Palace of Gold -
Nitro: Paul Bunyan and Babe -
Oak Hill: Hank Williams, Dead Here -
Odd: A Town Named Odd -
Parkersburg: Grave of the Weeping Woman -
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: Anchor That Sank The Sallie Marmet -
Point Pleasant: Chief Cornstalk's Vengeful Bones -
Point Pleasant: General: One-Time World's Largest Horse -
Point Pleasant: Grave of Mad Ann Bailey -
Point Pleasant: Mothman Museum -
Point Pleasant: Mothman Statue -
Point Pleasant: Paddleboat - Captain's Creamery -
Point Pleasant: Patriotic Mothman Mural -
Point Pleasant: Reproduction Stockade Fort -
Point Pleasant: Silver Bridge Disaster Memorial -
Point Pleasant: Silver Bridge Mural: Pre-Doom -
Point Pleasant: Stainless Steel Pioneers -
Prince: Monument to Smokeless Coal -
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: Grave of the Greenbrier Ghost -
Sam Black Church: Greenbrier Ghost Trial Marker -
Sarah Ann: Burial Ground of the Hatfields -
Seneca Rocks: Smoke Hole Caverns -
Shepherdstown: Little House for Lab Brats -
Shepherdstown: Monument to James Rumsey, Father of Steam -
Shinnston: Giant Coal Miner: Charlie -
Silver Lake: Smallest Mailing Office - Post Office -
Slaty Fork: Sharp's Kissing Bridge -
St. Albans: Red, White, and Blue Yeager Rocket -
St. Marys: Share Street with a Train -
Sutton: Classic Monster Chair -
Sutton: Flatwoods Monster Museum -
Sutton: Scary Monster Chair -
Sutton: Sporty Monster Chair -
Sutton: West Virginia Bigfoot Museum -
Talcott: John Henry Statue -
Thurmond: Coal Mining Ghost Town -
Unger: Big John -
Unger: King Midas Muffler Man -
Unger: Muffler Man - Bunyan -
Unger: Swimmer Dude -
Unger: The Farnham Colossi -
Unger: Uniroyal Gal -
Waiteville: Hanging Rock Raptor Observatory -
Welch: First Parking Garage in the U.S. -
Weston: Mountaineer Military Museum -
Weston: Museum of Glass and Marbles -
Weston: Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum -
Wheeling: Kruger Street Toy and Train Museum -
Wheeling: Madonna of the Trail -
Wheeling: McColloch's Leap Monument -
Wheeling: Metal Elephant -
Wheeling: Pope John Paul II Outside a Restaurant -
Wheeling: The Windmill -
Wheeling: Wheeling Island Flood Memorial Wall -
White Sulphur Springs: Coal House -
White Sulphur Springs: First Summer Presidential White 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 -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Berkeley Springs: Troubadour Lounge: "Joltin' Jim" McCoy
- Harpers Ferry: John Brown Wax Museum
- Harpers Ferry: Museum of the Supernatural
- Huntington: J. Taylor Auto Collection
- Hurricane: Paul Bunyan Eatery
- Morgantown: Biblical Scenes with Store Mannequins
- Moundsville: Circus and Carnival Mini-Museum
- Moundsville: Marx Toy Museum
- Oak Hill: Pallbearer Bears
- Point Pleasant: U.S. Navy Poster Museum
- Weston: Free Speech Stump


