Point Pleasant, West Virginia
West Virginia State Farm Museum
The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.
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Point Pleasant, West Virginia
The farming museum contains an extensive taxidermy collection, including the world's largest stuffed horse.
Brooklyn, West Virginia
The isolated final resting place for perished coal miners.
Morgantown, West Virginia
This university transit system is a 1970's vision of the future.
Grafton, West Virginia
Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.
Morgantown, West Virginia
A well-preserved relic of the industrial age steel and iron works that dotted West Virginia.
Arthurdale, West Virginia
The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.
Eglon, West Virginia
The highest point in Maryland is only accessible by hiking through another state.
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.
Green Bank, West Virginia
This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.
Salem, West Virginia
This abandoned train tunnel has been the subject of countless ghost stories for years.
Green Bank, West Virginia
The world's largest fully steerable radio telescope.
Lewisburg, West Virginia
Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.
Philippi, West Virginia
Two insane asylum bodies embalmed by an amateur.
Moundsville, West Virginia
The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.
Chester, West Virginia
First a root beer ad, then a golf course clubhouse, and finally a massive teapot.
Riverton, West Virginia
Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.
Beckley, West Virginia
A historic coal mine that doubles as a museum and tourist attraction.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
These rows of World War II-era bunkers were the scene of some of the infamous Mothman sightings.
Cass, West Virginia
Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.
Moundsville, West Virginia
Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.
Point Pleasant, West Virginia
This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.
Fayetteville, West Virginia
Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia
America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.
Weston, West Virginia
A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.