The Commonwealth of Virginia, one of the original thirteen states of the US that revolted against British rule in the American Revolution, is bordered by West Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia to the north, by Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, by North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, and by Kentucky and West Virginia to the west. Richmond is the capital.
REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS
HEART OF APPALACHIA REGION
Historic Crab Orchard Museum introduces visitors to the cultural heritage of the middle Appalachians.
BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS REGION
Morgan-McClure Museum has racing related exhibits.
Wolf Creek Indian village and museum offers you the experience of an aboriginal village dating back 700 years
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Historic Crab Orchard Museum
Beagle Ridge Herb Farm
Blue Ridge Institute & Museum
SHENANDOAH VALLEY REGION
Shenandoah Caverns Experience the color of Virginia's most beautiful caverns.
Natural Bridge Of Virginia offers a unique, historic, picturesque and natural experience.
Luray Caverns is eastern America's largest and most popular caverns.
Grand Caverns is America's oldest show cave and a stately and powerful example of Nature's handiwork.
Virginia's Explore Park offers a fun way to learn about the history of the land and the people in western Virginia in 1671, 1740, and 1850.
Salem Museum maintains an important collection of local artifacts, including Native American pieces recovered from an early Indian settlement, relics of the Civil War, and mementos of daily life from the span of Salem's history.
Luray Reptile Center features a unique blend of reptiles, exotic animals, tropical birds and birds of prey.
Science Museum of West Virginia lets you explore light, color and sound by interacting with more than 40 state-of-the-art exhibits.
CENTRAL REGION AAF Tank Museum has the largest tank & cavalry collection in the world.
Poplar Forest was Jefferson's octagonal retreat.
Ash Lawn-Highland is an historic house museum
Scottsville Museum brings the town's history to life, from its beginnings as an 18th century James River settlement to its shining era as a bustling 19th century river and canal port.
Edgar Allan Poe Museum provides a retreat into early nineteenth century Richmond where Edgar Allan Poe lived and worked.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Paramount's Kings Dominion
Danville Science Center
University of Virginia Art Museum
Monticello
Maymont
Agecroft Hall
University of Virginia Art Museum
NORTHERN REGION
Leesburg Animal Park offers the opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the friendliest animals around.
Newseum is the interactive museum of news. You can go behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made.
Alexandria Archaeology Museum has from more than 150 sites, spanning 10,000 years of human history.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Green Spring Gardens Park
The Manassas Museum
Gunston Hall Plantation
Morven Park
Splashdown Waterpark
Gari Melchers Home and Studio
Fredericksburg Area Museum
Torpedo Factory Art Center
CHESAPEAKE BAY REGION
Mary Ball Washington Museum was established in 1958 as a museum honoring the mother of the father of our country.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Stratford Hall
Westmoreland Berry Farm and Orchard
Reedville Fisherman's Museum
Historic Christ Church
TIDEWATER & HAMPTON ROADS REGION
Bacon's Castle is a rare surviving example of Jacobean architecture with its cruciform shape, triple chimneys and curvilinear gables.
Nauticus, The National Maritime Center is a multi-level maritime showcase.
Water Country is the mid-Atlantic's largest family water play park.
The Mariner's Museum is one of the largest international maritime museums of the world.
Chrysler Museum of Art offers over 30,000 objects spans over 5000 years of world history.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Virginia Marine Science Museum
The Hermitage Foundation Museum
The Old Coast Guard Station
Children's Museum of Virginia
Busch Gardens
Colonial Williamsburg
Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
EASTERN SHORE REGION
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge offers bird watching, biking, walking trails, fishing and scenic views.
Island Aquarium provides a unique opportunity to experience local marine life up close.
Chincoteague Island is one of the many and perhaps the most beautiful island that dots Virginia's Eastern Shore.
NATIONAL PARKS
George Washington Birthplace National Monument depicts five generations of Washington's beginning with John Washington in 1658.
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts comprises 130 acres of rolling hills and woods, with an abundance of natural resources.
Booker T. Washington National Monument is the site of famed educator, orator, and presidential advisor, Booker T. Washington's birth, early life, and emancipation.
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail follows the Revolutionary War route of militia from Virginia, today's eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to the battle of Kings Mountain, South Carolina, site of the Kings Mountain National Military Park.
Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,167-mile footpath along the ridge crests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in north Georgia.
Green Springs is a natural basin caused by erosion of a volcanic intrusion.
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site commemorates the life of this progressive and talented African-American woman who was the first woman in the US to establish and serve as president of a bank.
Colonial National Historic Park administers two of the most historically significant sites in North America: Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607 and Yorktown Battlefield, the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1781.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Appomattox Court House National Historic Park
Blue Ridge Parkway
Richmond National Battlefield Park
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Cape Henry National Memorial
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
REGIONAL ATTRACTIONS
HEART OF APPALACHIA REGION
Historic Crab Orchard Museum introduces visitors to the cultural heritage of the middle Appalachians.
BLUE RIDGE HIGHLANDS REGION
Morgan-McClure Museum has racing related exhibits.
Wolf Creek Indian village and museum offers you the experience of an aboriginal village dating back 700 years
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Historic Crab Orchard Museum
Beagle Ridge Herb Farm
Blue Ridge Institute & Museum
SHENANDOAH VALLEY REGION
Shenandoah Caverns Experience the color of Virginia's most beautiful caverns.
Natural Bridge Of Virginia offers a unique, historic, picturesque and natural experience.
Luray Caverns is eastern America's largest and most popular caverns.
Grand Caverns is America's oldest show cave and a stately and powerful example of Nature's handiwork.
Virginia's Explore Park offers a fun way to learn about the history of the land and the people in western Virginia in 1671, 1740, and 1850.
Salem Museum maintains an important collection of local artifacts, including Native American pieces recovered from an early Indian settlement, relics of the Civil War, and mementos of daily life from the span of Salem's history.
Luray Reptile Center features a unique blend of reptiles, exotic animals, tropical birds and birds of prey.
Science Museum of West Virginia lets you explore light, color and sound by interacting with more than 40 state-of-the-art exhibits.
CENTRAL REGION AAF Tank Museum has the largest tank & cavalry collection in the world.
Poplar Forest was Jefferson's octagonal retreat.
Ash Lawn-Highland is an historic house museum
Scottsville Museum brings the town's history to life, from its beginnings as an 18th century James River settlement to its shining era as a bustling 19th century river and canal port.
Edgar Allan Poe Museum provides a retreat into early nineteenth century Richmond where Edgar Allan Poe lived and worked.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Paramount's Kings Dominion
Danville Science Center
University of Virginia Art Museum
Monticello
Maymont
Agecroft Hall
University of Virginia Art Museum
NORTHERN REGION
Leesburg Animal Park offers the opportunity to get up close and personal with some of the friendliest animals around.
Newseum is the interactive museum of news. You can go behind the scenes to see and experience how and why news is made.
Alexandria Archaeology Museum has from more than 150 sites, spanning 10,000 years of human history.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Green Spring Gardens Park
The Manassas Museum
Gunston Hall Plantation
Morven Park
Splashdown Waterpark
Gari Melchers Home and Studio
Fredericksburg Area Museum
Torpedo Factory Art Center
CHESAPEAKE BAY REGION
Mary Ball Washington Museum was established in 1958 as a museum honoring the mother of the father of our country.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Stratford Hall
Westmoreland Berry Farm and Orchard
Reedville Fisherman's Museum
Historic Christ Church
TIDEWATER & HAMPTON ROADS REGION
Bacon's Castle is a rare surviving example of Jacobean architecture with its cruciform shape, triple chimneys and curvilinear gables.
Nauticus, The National Maritime Center is a multi-level maritime showcase.
Water Country is the mid-Atlantic's largest family water play park.
The Mariner's Museum is one of the largest international maritime museums of the world.
Chrysler Museum of Art offers over 30,000 objects spans over 5000 years of world history.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Virginia Marine Science Museum
The Hermitage Foundation Museum
The Old Coast Guard Station
Children's Museum of Virginia
Busch Gardens
Colonial Williamsburg
Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
EASTERN SHORE REGION
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge offers bird watching, biking, walking trails, fishing and scenic views.
Island Aquarium provides a unique opportunity to experience local marine life up close.
Chincoteague Island is one of the many and perhaps the most beautiful island that dots Virginia's Eastern Shore.
NATIONAL PARKS
George Washington Birthplace National Monument depicts five generations of Washington's beginning with John Washington in 1658.
Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts comprises 130 acres of rolling hills and woods, with an abundance of natural resources.
Booker T. Washington National Monument is the site of famed educator, orator, and presidential advisor, Booker T. Washington's birth, early life, and emancipation.
Overmountain Victory National Historic Trail follows the Revolutionary War route of militia from Virginia, today's eastern Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia to the battle of Kings Mountain, South Carolina, site of the Kings Mountain National Military Park.
Appalachian National Scenic Trail is a 2,167-mile footpath along the ridge crests and across the major valleys of the Appalachian Mountains from Katahdin in Maine to Springer Mountain in north Georgia.
Green Springs is a natural basin caused by erosion of a volcanic intrusion.
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site commemorates the life of this progressive and talented African-American woman who was the first woman in the US to establish and serve as president of a bank.
Colonial National Historic Park administers two of the most historically significant sites in North America: Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607 and Yorktown Battlefield, the final major battle of the American Revolutionary War in 1781.
OTHER ATTRACTIONS
Appomattox Court House National Historic Park
Blue Ridge Parkway
Richmond National Battlefield Park
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Cape Henry National Memorial
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
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