Places DaveMcB Wants to Go

This fourth-generation family business is reviving West Virginia's historic tradition of salt-making.

This colorful West Virginia cowboy greets passersby with a glassy stare.

A lone grave is quietly tucked away in Kanawha Riflemen's Memorial Park.

A family-run store in an 1892 pharmacy still slings old-fashioned sodas.

This campus monument honors Katherine Johnson, who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first human spaceflight and safely land Apollo 11 on the moon.

This riverside restaurant delivers elegant dining in a historic 1901 train depot. 

The largest university building in the West is a gothic masterpiece containing dozens of theme rooms based on different countries.

This restaurant offers a side of antiques, curios, and a bathroom chock full of owls.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

A treasure trove of material within the University of Pittsburgh Library Systems has spawned the world's first and only center for academic study of the horror genre.

One Pittsburgh musician's decades-in-the-making memorabilia collection is on display at this rock-n-roll curio shop.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.

The Master of Magnetism dominates the walls of a scrap metal yard to keep graffiti artists at bay.

A giant ball made from pieces of an old Jeep.

A model of a dinosaur that was named for Andrew Carnegie stands outside the museum that also bears his name.

This shop filled with oddities and knick-knacks is named for a 19th-century charlatan.

An 18th-century Catholic church converted into an eccentric temple of music and bacchanalia.

This eccentric mansion museum holds a impressive collection of rare and automatic instruments.

A T. Rex statue dressed as Mister Rogers honors the children’s-television pioneer.

Ornate and vibrant, this temple is a colorful place of worship for Columbus's Thai and Laotian communities.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

Dedicated to the largest armed uprising in American history since the Civil War.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.