Places semken Wants to Go

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

This rural bridge gave the government of West Virginia a red scare.

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

The legacy of the Ohio-founded Fostoria Glass Company lives on in West Virginia.

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

This statue in Talcott, West Virginia, is an enduring symbol of American grit.

This former zinc operation has a 90-year toxic history.

West Virginia’s largest bog is home to rare carnivorous plants.

A 1,000-foot-long railroad tunnel under Shavers Fork connected the towns during West Virginia's logging boom until its closure in 1985.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

This small West Virginia park is a land trust holdout against mountaintop removal mining.

This functioning mill was built in the 1970s using parts from several other West Virginia mills.

Once home to a thriving oil industry, this town now sits eerily abandoned.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

Thousands of tiny squares in different colors make up this piece of street art.

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

In an odd geographic anomaly this city borders two different states on opposite sides of town.

This abandoned mine and power plant was built atop land once given to Revolutionary War soldiers.

The tallest waterfall in West Virginia.

An abandoned coal mine reached by a steep hike.

This university transit system is a 1970s vision of the future.