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West Virginia Tourist AttractionsGuide to roadside oddities and other weird, strange and unusual attractions in West Virginia.
And how about those Hillbilly Hot Dogs everyone is talking about? Plus there’s a cool ride on a railcar with a cool name and there’s mummies to go see, too.
The Mystery Hole of West Virginia is one of those mysterious mystery holes that dot the U.S. Strange, weird, unexplainable things happen at mystery holes. Like you walk on a slant, water flows uphill, things like that. But that’s why these types of tacky tourist traps are so fun—they are unexplainable and well, mysterious.
The Mystery Hole is open from April-October. They are on Highway 60, west of Ansted, West Virginia. Phone Number: (304) 658-9101
Or rather, the cool ride is the unusual lodgings.
The Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad offers a couple of cool rides. One is the Cheat Mountain Salamander, to the right. It’s a rail car named after an endangered species that lives only on Cheat Mountain.
It’s a steam train and you can ride in the caboose! But what’s even more cooler, you can rent the caboose and have them dump you off way back in the back of beyond and stay overnight! Now how cool is that?? Then, when your stay is done, the train comes back to pull your caboose back to Durbin and civiliztion. And you can continue your quest for more weird and different West Virginia tourist attractions! For your overnight stay in a caboose or a ride on the Cheat Mountain Salamander, contact the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad in Durbin, West Virginia. Phone: (304) 456-4935. Tickets for the Salamander are available at the Cheat Mountain, WV office. However reservations are recommended. The car will only hold 48.
More Durbin, West Virginia tourist attractions.
Here’s a weird West Virginia tourist attraction you go to for the atmosphere AND the food!
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Hillbilly Hot Dogs in Lesage, West Virginia is a couple of old busses attached to a shack. Talk about atmosphere! And their dogs are good, too! Be sure and call first for “gone fishin” closures. Don’t want to miss out on your Hillbilly Hot Dog cuz they done did and gone fishin! Hillbilly Hot Dogs is at 6951 Ohio River Road, Lesage WV. Phone: (304) 762-2458 Hillbilly Hot Dogs are also in two other West Virginia towns: Culloden: 1964 U.S. Highway 60, Culloden, WV. Phone: (304) 743-0044 Huntington: 1501 3rd Ave, Huntington, WV. Phone: (304) 522-0044
Well, the covered bridge is a cool West Virginia tourist attraction all on its own. It is the only “double barrel” covered bridge still in use on a U.S. Highway. Gotta drive through it. Both ways so you get to see both sides!! At the south end of the bridge, the Barbour County Museum beckons. Or maybe it’s the contents that beckons. Two mummies, American mummies, not Egyptian or otherwise, are housed at the museum. Gotta see them, too!
In 1888, this farmer guy, tired of mummifying his dead goats, wheedled and pleaded with a nearby insane asylum for a couple of dead crazies.
The mummies have led a varied life, er death. For a while they were part of the P T Barnum Circus. Then they were stuffed away in a barn. Or maybe they were under some persons bed. Maybe it was both.
Anyway, there’ve lived (well, dead lived) through a couple of floods. Wet and moldy they were set out in the sun to dry out. And now they live in an old bathroom at the Barbour County Museum. The Philippi Covered Bridge is on US 250 at the junction of US 119. The Barbour County Museum is at the south end of the covered bridge. 200 N. Main St., Philippi, West Virginia. Phone: (304) 457-4846
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The only way to get to this lodge is by tram!
Sound like fun? This West Virginia tourist attraciton is seasonal, so plan your trip accordingly!
Pipestem Resort State Park can be reached at phone: (304) 466-1800 or TOLL FREE 800-CALL WVA. To make reservations, ask for extension 387.
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