The Clay Center in Charleston, West Virginia, is a 240,000-square-foot facility dedicated to promoting performing arts, visual arts, and the sciences. The Clay Center is a family oriented museum complete with interactive science displays for children and an art museum.

Designed by influential architect Cass Gilbert, this grand building, the highest state capitol dome in the United States, is open to the public for tours and features decadent interior details like marble walls a massive crystal chandelier.

Located in the cultural center, this interesting museum traces the history of West Virginia through a series of exhibits containing everything from an expensive collection of antique hats donated by a local school teacher to the telescope. George Washington used to serve a lands within the state.

Imagine a shopping environment with many specialty shops that include a cafe, hot lunch spots, a butcher, a wine shop, a fresh seafood market, a bakery and a fresh cold spot for fresh produce year-round and a full-scale restaurant for lunch and dinner. Capitol Market offers a vast array of items from Spring plants to fresh produce to Fall pumpkins and holiday trees are what you will see year-round throughout the Outdoor Market. As you stroll the outdoor market marveling at the many specialty shops indoors, as well as the eclectic lunch spots with unique menus to tantalize anyone's appetite. You can also dine at the hottest restaurant in Charleston, Soho's.

Feel like getting in touch with nature? This state park offers scenic hiking trails, a peaceful creek perfect for picnics and cookouts, and quiet camping spots. They also highlight the well-maintained trails suitable for walking, hiking, and mountain biking, and the abundance of wildlife.

Feel like taking a little trip? Blenko Glass Company has been a family owned and operated company since 1893. We have been located in Milton, WV since 1921. Exquisite color, skilled craftsmen, and imaginative designs have made Blenko famous in the time-honored craft of hand-blown glass. In a world of ever increasing automation, we at Blenko pride ourselves in paying particular attention to the forms and designs of our handmade ​​products.

If you like to do some exploring and want to travel into Huntington where Troy and Hannah firs met, then we highly recommend Pullman Square in downtown Huntington. Huntington is about an hour drive from Charleston.

Heritage Farm Museum and Village is an open-air living history museum in Huntington, West Virginia that focuses on Appalachian history and culture. Originally conceived as a location to house and display the private collection of A. Michael "Mike" and Henriella Perry, Heritage Farm has expanded into an entire Appalachian Frontier Village that was recently named West Virginia's first Smithsonian-affiliated museum.