America's first spa town hides a stone bathhouse from the 1810s where you soak in a private 750-gallon tub of warm mineral water piped straight from the springs, in the Eastern Panhandle.
Road trips · West Virginia
West Virginia road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in West Virginia — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
Deep in the mountains of Pocahontas County sits the world's largest steerable radio telescope, inside a federal "quiet zone" where cell signals are banned to keep the cosmos audible.
This gleefully chaotic shack on the Ohio River in Lesage serves dogs like the 15-inch Homewrecker amid school buses, graffiti, and decades of signed junk covering every surface.
Once a booming coal-and-railroad town, this near-empty hamlet deep in the New River Gorge now counts about five residents and a beautifully preserved depot the Park Service maintains.
A bright-painted roadside oddity near Ansted where a short guided tour drops you into chambers that seem to scramble gravity, pure 1970s Appalachian kitsch above the New River Gorge.
Built by hand by Hare Krishna devotees on a Moundsville hilltop, a gilded, mirror-and-marble shrine rising out of the northern panhandle hills like something teleported from another continent, with rose gardens.
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