• Contentment Museum Home (NW on US60), Attraction: Observe the quiet rural life of 1800s West Virginia, 1830 house, furnished schoolhouse, museum, $

Arthurville [NE]

• Arthurville Heritage New Deal Museum, Attraction: First New Deal homestead, this experimental agricultural project includes houses, schools, a health clinic, community center, dairy farm, $

• Cathedral State Park, Attraction: Majestic trees that form a cathedral-like atmosphere, $

Beckley [SW]

• Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, Attraction: Underground coal mine tour, mining museum, coal camp, mountain homestead featuring an Appalachian pioneer village, log house, barn, one-room schoolhouse, weaver's shed, blacksmith shop, moonshine still, country store, $

• Tamarack (Exit 45 off I-64/77), Attraction: Virginia-made arts, foods, & agricultural products, 0$

Bethany [NW]

• Campbell Mansion, Attraction: 18 rooms of the late 1700s homestead furnished in period, schoolroom, smoke house, $

Beverly [SE]

• Birch Mountain Battlefield (4 mi W of Beverly), Attraction: One of the earliest engagements of the Civil War took place here July 11, 1861, $

Bluefield [SW]

• Eastern Regional Coal Archives, Attraction: Collection of coal mining memorabilia, mining equipment, 0$

Bruceton Mills [NE]

• Henry Clay Iron Furnace, Attraction: One of the few surviving examples of an early 1800s iron furnace, $

• Ole Mill Restaurant, Attraction: Steaks, seafood, & home-style meals in a friendly atmosphere

• Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, Attraction: Steam shays pull train through switchbacks, steep grades, & unspoiled wilderness to a restored 1940s logging camp, $$

• Midland Trail Scenic Highway (US60), Attraction: Between Charleston & White Sulphur Springs through pastoral scenery and past the rugged New River Gorge
• Rippling Waters Christian Campground, Attraction: Camping

Charles Town [SW]

• Jefferson County Museum, Attraction: Memorabilia of the Washington family & John Brown, local relics, Civil War items, $

• Cheat Mountain Salamander, Attraction: Visit ghost town of Spruce, High Falls of Cheat on trip along Shavers Fork River

• Pilgrim Glass Corporation (Airport exit off I-64), Attraction: Learn about glassmaking, watch craftsmen as they create masterpieces, 0$

Clarksburg [NW]

1824 birthplace of General Thomas J "Stonewall" Jackson, hero of the Confederacy

• Blackwater Falls State Park (SW of Davis off SR32), Attraction: 65-ft water falls tumbles into gorge more than 525-ft deep, 0$

Droop [SW]

• Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park (3 mi S of Droop on US219), Attraction: Civil War battlefield that ended the last serious Confederate resistance in the state, log-cabin museum, Civil War memorabilia, hiking, 0$

• Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad, Attraction: 90-minute trip through breathtaking mountain scenery on the Durbin Rocket, $$

• Prickett's Fort, State Park (2 mi W from Exit 139 off I-79), Attraction: Reconstructed 1704 fort, relive 1700s lifestyle, $

• Beartown State Park, Attraction: Unusual rock formations, walkways through and over the crevasses & rocks

Fayetteville [SW]

• Glade Creek Grist Mill, Attraction: Working flour mill

• New River Gorge, Attraction: Known as Grand Canyon of the East

• New River Gorge Bridge (on US19), Attraction: 876-ft high bridge is second highest in U.S.

• Valley Falls State Park, Attraction: Two falls in a long canyon

Harpers Ferry (NE]

• Harpers Ferry National Park, Attraction: Federal arsenal built in 1796, many of the muskets & rifles used in the War of 1812 & Civil War were manufactured here

Charming Swiss village with a museum & restaurant (on CR46)

Hillsboro [SE]

• Beartown State Park, Attraction: Unusual rock formations

• Droop Mountain Battlefield State Park, Attraction: Log cabin museum, cemetery, earthworks, and viewing tower

• Hillsboro Country Store

• Hinton Railroad Museum, Attraction: Artifacts of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway, 0$

• Lost World Caverns, Attraction: Discovered in 1942, the caves contain a number of large rooms, stalactite, stalagmite, flowstone formations, $$
• North House History Museum, Attraction: Restored 1820 house with antiques & artifacts dating from the early 1700s to the late 1800s, Revolutionary War items, Civil War items, Conestoga wagon, $
• Old Stone Church, Attraction: Constructed of native stone in 1796, has original slave balcony, 0$

• Pocohontas County Historical Museum (S of US219 from Jct SR39), Attraction: County history, implements, clothes, Swiss music box that plays 36 tunes, $

The infamous Hatfield/McCoy feud started in the Tug River Valley near present-day Matewan on Aug 7, 1882, violence lasted only 6 yrs but continues on in local lore

• Lost River State Park (4 mi W of SR259 on CR12), Attraction: Restored summer cabin owned by Robert E Lee's father, 0$

• Blenko Glass factory tour (Exit 28 off I-64), Attraction: Handmade contemporary tableware & stained glass, watch glass being made from observation deck, factory store, 0$

• Delf Norona Museum, Attraction: Artifacts  & displays related to the Grave Creek Mound & the Native Americans that built it, $
• Grave Creek Mound Historic Site, Attraction: Largest conical Indian burial mound in the Americas, original excavations revealed two burial chambers, $
• Official Marx Toy Museum, Attraction: Toys manufactured by the Louis B. Marx & Co during the 50s & 60s, $
• West Virginia Penitentiary, Attraction: The state's first territorial prison, electric chair, the gallows, $

• Twin Falls Resort State Park (30 mi SW of Beckley), Attraction: Cabin Creek Falls, Black Fork Falls, 1800s farm buildings, camping

• Homer Laughlin China Co (1 mi S of the Newell Bridge), Attraction: Factory tour of largest American maker of domestic & hotel china, 0$

• Blennerhasett Museum, Attraction: Archeological & historical exhibits, $

• Petersburg Gap (E of Petersburg on US220), Attraction: 800-ft cliffs, pictured rocks
• Smoke Hole Caverns (8 mi SW of Petersburg on SR28/55), Attraction: One of the world's longest ribbon stalactites, underground lake & stream, used by Indians to smoke meat, used by early settlers to make moonshine, 1800s still, $

First land battle of the Civil War fought at Phillipi on June 3, 1861

• Adaland Mansion (N of Phillipi on US119), Attraction: 1870 brick mansion with period wallpaper & antique furnishings, $
• Barbout County Historical Museum, Attraction: Civil War memorabilia, antiques, books, & 2 mummies, 0$

• Twin Falls State Park, Attraction: Cabin creek falls, Black Fork Falls, Pioneer Farm

• Pipestem Resort State Park (on SR20), Attraction: Aerial tram ascends 3,600 ft, scenery, 82 campsites, $

Point Pleasant [SW]

• Fort Randolph Battlefield (Revolutionary War)

• River Museum

• West Virginia State Farm Museum (6 mi N of Point Pleasant on Rte62), Attraction: Go back to the early days of farming, 31 buildings including an 1805 log cabin, one-room schoolhouse, operating blacksmith shop, print shop, doctor's office, fully stocked country store, farm equipment, tractor collection, 0$

• Those Who Served War Museum, Attraction: More than 750 war relics & personal effects, mostly from WWII, 0$

• Seneca Caverns (3 mi E of US33), Attraction: Unusual mineral formations, gemstone mining available, $
• Spruce Knob (W of US 33), Attraction: Highest point in West Virginia

One of the oldest settlements in West Virginia, town is said to have changed hands 56 times during the Civil War

• Fort New Salem (1 mi S from Jct US50 & SR23), Attraction: Living-history settlement includes 20 log structures, craftspeople demonstrate their trades, $

• Seneca Rocks (off US33 & SR28), Attraction: Intricately eroded quartzite sandstone
• Smoke Hole, Attraction: Half-mile deep gorge

• Carnifex Ferry Battlefield State Park (10 mi SW off US19), Attraction: Site of Sep 10, 1861 battle, Civil War relics, 0$

• Great Bend Tunnel (on Hwy3), Attraction: Reputed site of John Henry legend where he battled a steam drill & won, statue of John Henry

• The Purple Fiddle, Attraction: Coffeehouse, restaurant, live mountain music

• Thurmond (on SR25), Attraction: One of the great railroad towns during the early 1900s, current town reflects this earlier era, 0$

• Watters Smith Memorial State Park (2 mi S of West Milford), Attraction: Replica of log cabin built by first settler in the area, blacksmith shop, barns, $

• Jackson's Mill Historic Area, Attraction: Gristmill, water-driven sawmill, farm implements, weaving equipment, tools, 1700s log cabin, $

Wellsburg [NW]

• Brooke Glass, Attraction: Factory tour, 0$

Wheeling [NW]

• Carriage House Glass Museum, Attraction: Large collection of glassware from 1817-1939, $

• Kruger Street Toy & Train Museum, Attraction: Thousands of vintage toys & trains, $

• Wheeling Suspension Bridge, Attraction: 900-ft suspension bridge built in 1849 is world's longest

• Wymer's General Store Museum, Attraction: Re-created general store of the 1880s

• Fenton Art Glass Co (Exit 185 off I-77), Attraction: Factory tour, 0$
• Fenton Glass Museum, Attraction: Examples of early Ohio Valley glass, 0$