James Madison’s Montpelier Estate

James Madison, father of the U.S. Constitution, maintained a lifelong home at Montpelier that is open to the public and displays a recent $25 million restoration.

The centerpiece of the estate is the mansion. But visitors also can see exhibits, gardens, archaeological sites, forest trails, a freed slave’s cabin and farm, demonstrations and other activities. (more…)

Virginia Air and Space Center

The Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton takes educational experiences to the next level with a fun-filled, hands-on journey that enables visitors to learn what it is like to prepare and experience space travel. (more…)

Amazement Square Children’s Museum

Amazement Square in downtown Lynchburg is home to one of the best children’s museums in Virginia.

In fact, this one has so much to see and do that visitors might even be tempted to visit when their kids are in school. Driving up to the brick building plastered in a few Spielberg-like insects, aka the “Lynchbugs,” and visitors realize they are not just at any children’s museum. (more…)

National Museum and White House of the Confederacy

The National Museum and White House of the Confederacy stand in the city of Richmond as a remnant of the Old South. (more…)

National Marine Corps Museum

Anyone driving along I-95 north to Washington D.C. will easily see the towering spire that rises above the National Marine Corps Museum in Prince William County.

It clearly evokes the image of the American marine flag-raisers of Iwo Jima, one of the most famous battles in the Pacific Ocean during World War II. (more…)

Walton’s Mountain Museum in Schuyler

“Good night, John Boy”— the phrase that every American came to know from watching television in the 1970s and 1980s.

America grew to love the wholesome, honest family that Earl Hamner wrote about in his book, “The Homecoming”. The book was ultimately based on the stories and life of Hamner’s own family, and the show became an icon of an America that used to be, the life of a Virginia family during the Great Depression. (more…)