Discover 38 Cool and Unusual Things to Do in West Virginia

This abandoned amusement park was built on an American Indian burial ground. Seriously.

Particularly creepy abandoned asylum which sparks interest with the morbid and the ghost hunters.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, a boomtown-turned-ghost town.

Beyond your average beatings and shankings, this pen has a pretty bloody undercurrent running through its history.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Scene of the infamous Mothman sightings.

America's post-nuclear-attack chambers of Congress.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.