Here Are 9 Museums In West Virginia That Are Just Too Weird For Words

Looking to learn a little bit this summer? Or maybe you're planning a local road trip and need some places to add to the list? Here are some of the weirdest museums in West Virginia.

1. The John Brown Wax Museum in Harpers Ferry

Learn the story of John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, one of the triggering events to the Civil War, with the help of 87 life-size wax figures.

2. The Mothman Museum in Point Pleasant

Come learn more about the monster reportedly seen in Point Pleasant in the late 60s.

3. The US Navy Posters Museum

A whole museum in Point Pleasant is dedicated to posters from the Navy.

4. The Lost World Caverns Visitor Center and Natural History Museum

If you're looking to tour a cave and then learn about some dinosaurs, this is the place. The museum features "largest collection of dinosaur and fossil replicas in West Virginia," according to its website.

5. Whipple Company Store & Appalachian Heritage Museum

Do you owe your soul to the company store? You can walk through one in this Fayette County museum. There are even haunted tours.

6. Castle Halloween Museum

There's a place in Benwood where it's Halloween everyday!

7. The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine and Youth Museum

If you've ever wondered what it was like living in an Appalachian coal camp, you can get a glimpse of it when you tour this vintage mine and period coal camp buildings.

8. West Virginia State Penitentiary

If dark and scary is your thing, tour the museum that is the West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville. There are ghost tours and history tours.

9. The Telephone Museum in Fairmont

It's a whole museum dedicated to phones. How weird is that?

These are some of the weirdest museums in West Virginia, but I'm sure there are others. Can you think of any more?