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Bassett Hall
South-side of Francis Street / phone: 757-229-1000
The Colonial Williamsburg home of John D. Rockefeller Jr. & his wife, restored from it’s 18th-century beginnings, it was updated to suit the 20th-century lifestyle of its owners. Looking much like it appeared in the 1930s, the home sits on over 580 acres
Busch Gardens Williamsburg
1 Busch Gardens Boulevard / phone: 800-343-7946
America's most beautiful theme park, Busch Gardens also has some of the most thrilling rides and coasters. With a European theme, the park hosts villages from England to Italy and includes a new section called Sesame Street Forest of Fun! Fun for all ages!
Chrysler Hall
215 E Brambleton Avenue / phone: 757-664-6464
Part of the Scope Complex, Chrysler Hall hosts headliner acts, ballet and national play productions.
Colonial Downs
10515 Colonial Downs Parkway / phone: 804-966-7223
Colonial Downs, where thoroughbred and harness racing are a part of the action at this local track. The race schedule varies seasonally beginning in late April to mid-summer, with a new season in early September and through October.
Edythe C. and Stanley L. Harrison Opera House
160 W Virginia Beach Boulevard / phone: 757-623-1223
Home of the Virginia Opera Company, the venue is also used for ballet and headliner performances.
Endview Plantation
362 Yorktown Road / phone: 757-887-1862
Built in 1769 by William Harwood, the ‘T’- frame Georgian-style house renamed Endview in the 1850s, served as a Confederate hospital during the 1862 Peninsula Campaign. The site now hosts re-enactments and history programs.
Ferguson Center for the Arts
1 University Place / phone: 757-594-7448
Two new theaters with the larger 1700 seat concert hall for major productions and headliners on the campus of Christopher Newport University. Events also include plays, dance, symphony performances and the Ella Fitzgerald Music Festival.
Fort Monroe / Casemate Museum
20 Bernard Road / phone: 757-788-3391
Stone fort facing the entrance to the Chesapeake Bay, built in the 1830s, Fort Monroe is currently is part of an active army post. Civil War history, connections to Poe, & a citadel guarding Hampton Roads, the fort has an amazing history to be explored.
Go-Karts Plus: Family Entertainment Center
6910 Richmond Road / phone: 757-564-7600
A great place to wind down or up, as the case may be, Go Karts Plus is just beyond the Pottery Factory in Williamsburg. Open June through October, the best time for a visit is nighttime when the lights come on & it cools down a bit...Rides for all ages!
Hampton Coliseum
1000 Coliseum Drive / phone: 757-838-5650
Venus for national headliner concerts, the Hampton Jazz Festival, rodeo, trade shows and circus performances.
Henricus Historical Park
251 Henricus Park Road / phone: 804-748-1613
Welcome to the reconstructed citie of Henricus. The Virginia Company of London had hoped it would be the principal seat of the colony, replacing the unhealthy "aire" of Jamestown. Here also, was the English home of Pocahontas & her husband John Rolfe.
Historic Jamestowne
Colonial Parkway / phone: 757-229-1733
In the steps of Captain John Smith & Pocahontas, explore Americas beginnings where the first English representative government met & where the first arrival of Africans to English North American was recorded in 1619. Jamestown, the Beginning of America.
James River Plantations
Virginia Route 5
Five historic plantations, some dating back to the 1600s, they are icons of the river and include presidential homes, Sherwood Forest and Berkeley. The exquisite Shirley and the classic Westover and Evelynton round out these top five Plantations.
Jamestown Settlement
218 Jamestown Road / phone: 757-253-4838
Virginia's recreation of the first settlement at Jamestown with the palisade fort, Indian village, the first three sailing ships and a interpretive museum covering the years before and after the settlement from both perspectives, Old and New World.
Kimball Theatre
Duke of Gloucester Street / Merchants Square / phone: 757-565-8588
Seasonal offerings includes performances by the Williamsburg Symphonia and the Williamsburg Women Chorus as well as other live events and art films. Also a venue for Colonial Williamsburg programs, lectures and presentations.
Lake Matoaka Amphitheatre
121 Campus Drive off Jamestown Road
Lake Matoaka Amphitheatre is an outdoor concert venue on the campus of William & Mary.
Landmark Theatre
6 North Laurel Street / phone: 804-592-3400
Formerly The Mosque, was built in 1926 by Shriners as their Acca Temple Shrine. The City of Richmond purchased the venue in 1940. One of the best known and most striking buildings in Richmond, its seating capacity is 3,565.
Langley Speedway
3165 N Armistead Avenue / phone: 757-865-7223
Short track, late model and modified division racing, most race events held on Saturday evenings with prelims starting in the afternoon.
Lee Hall Mansion
163 Yorktown Road / phone: 757-888-3371
An 1858 mansion near the city line between Newport News and James City County, the Civil War era home is open for tours and hosts special events year-round.
Muscarelle Museum of Art
603 Jamestown Road / phone: 757-221-2700
Located on the campus of William & Mary, the Muscarelle showcases collections owned & accumulated by the college for over 300 years as well as international exhibitions from 17th century portraits to contemporary works in their galleries. / Closed Monday
Peninsula Community Theatre
10251 Warwick Boulevard / phone: 757-595-5728
Venue for local theatrical productions.
Phi Beta Kappa Memorial Hall
601 Jamestown Road / phone: 757-221-2655
Seasonal offering include national headliner performance, ballet, dance, William and Mary plays and the Virginia Shakespeare Festival. On the campus of The College of William & Mary.
Pirate’s Cove Miniature Golf
2001 Mooretown Road / phone: 757-259-4600
Pirate’s Cove in Williamsburg offers two award winning 18-hole courses to entertain visitors. Players will play among sunken ships, gorgeous waterfalls, meandering streams and lavish landscaping while having to dodge a pirate or two! / Open seasonally
Presidents Park
211 Water Country Parkway / phone: 757-259-1121
As a place filled with history, the Presidents Park was an appropriate addition to Williamsburg’s attractions. Across 199 from Water Country, guests can come & walk among 42 life-like 18 ft. tall busts of our American Presidents by artist David Adickes.
Richmond Center Stage
600 E. Grace Street / phone: 804-225-9000
This is the region’s new performing arts complex located in the heart of downtown Richmond. It encompasses Rhythm Hall, the Showcase Gallery, Gottwald Playhouse, the Genworth BrightLights Education Center and the historic Carpenter Theatre.
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum and 4D Theater
1735 Richmond Road / phone: 757-220-9220
Ripley’s Odditorium offers a gallery with a variety of strange, beautiful & unusual animals as well as works of art made from everyday objects, incredible collections, strange hobbies & exhibits from the world of science & illusions. / Open year round
Scope
215 E Brambleton Avenue / phone: 757-664-6464
Coliseum arena in Norfolk, the complex also has theatre additions. Scope arena hosts ice hockey, the circus and national acts and Virginia Arts Festival events.
Shirley Plantation
501 Shirley Plantation Road / phone: 804-829-5121
One of the oldest plantations along the James River with land grants dating back 1613 & a home built by 1738 that has remained in the same family for 11 generations, Shirley also holds the title of America's oldest family-owned business dating to 1638.
Smith’s Fort Plantation
217 Smith Fort Lane / phone: 757-294-3872
Built sometime between 1751 & 1765, the story-and-a-half brick house is laid in Flemish bond & was home to Jacob Faulcon. Sited on property that once housed a fort built by Capt. John Smith, the land was once owned by John Rolfe & wife Pocahontas.
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
325 West Francis Street / Historic Area / phone: 757-220-7554
Housed in the same building as the Dewitt Wallace, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum hosts a collection which includes handicrafts, quilts, art and toys by 18th through 20th-century folk artisans.
The American Theatre
125 East Mellen Street / phone: 757-727-2787
A unique and intimate venue offering renown live performances and concerts from all over the world as well as national stage company theater presentations.
The DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum of Decorative Arts
325 Francis Street / Historic Area / phone: 757-229-1000
Colonial Williamsburg's collection of Decorative Arts is housed in this museum and includes 18th century furnishings, weapons, paintings, fabrics, silver, ceramics, porcelains and more. The Hennage Auditorium is also on site and hosts lectures and events.
The Mariner's Museum
100 Museum Drive / phone: 757-596-2222
One of the largest maritime collections in the world, the Museum is also known as America's National Maritime Museum and is home to the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor artifacts, the collection of August F. Crabtree miniature ships and a huge parkland.
Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
3550 Cellar Door Way / phone: 757-368-3000
Outdoor Amphitheater with headliner concerts
Virginia Air & Space Center
600 Settlers Landing Road / phone: 757-727-0900
The original Mercury Seven astronauts trained at Langley NASA. This museum has taken the NASA collection of space memorabilia and added to the areas historical connection to early flight and created an amazing space! An Imax theatre is also on site.
Virginia Beach Oceanfront
Atlantic Avenue / phone: 800-861-7873
Beachfront beaches that runs from Rudee inlet north to Cape Henry, it is one of the longest resort beaches in the world.
Virginia Living Museum
524 J Clyde Morris Boulevard / phone: 757-595-1900
Displaying the flora and fauna of Virginia in living displays, the museum is accredited with the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the first in Virginia to be so honored. Special indoor-outdoor summer exhibitions are designed to delight all ages.
Virginia War Museum
9285 Warwick Boulevard / phone: 757-247-8523
A collection of War memorabilia, weapons, uniforms and historic items from the Colonial period through current conflicts.The museum also oversees two historic houses in the city and sponsors historic preservation of Virginia war sites.
Watermen's Museum
309 Water Street / phone: 757-887-2641
Museum has it's focus on the history and contributions of the watermen of the Chesapeake Bay and it's tributaries from the Colonial period to the present century.
Williamsburg Players Theater
200 Hubbard Lane / phone: 757-229-1679
The area's oldest continuous community theatre offering several plays each year.
Williamsburg Winery
5800 Wessex Hundred / phone: 757-258-0899
The award winning Williamsburg Winery produces almost one-quarter of all wine in Virginia. With over 50 acres of vineyard on site, tours & tastings are offered year round. Offering dining, the winery is a venue for special events, concerts & entertainment.
Yorktown
Main Street
On the northeast end of the Colonial Parkway lies Yorktown, a sleepy little town awakens each year on the 19th of October for Yorktown Day where in 1781 freedom was won after a long series of battles that started with a “war of words & ideas” in Virgin
Yorktown Victory Center
260 Water Street / phone: 757-253-4838
The Victory Center is an Interpretive museum within earshot of the last battle of the American Revolution, galleries relate to the impact of the Revolution on citizens on both sides, and houses artifacts from British ships lost during the 1781 siege.
Yorktown Waterfront
Water Street / phone: 757-890-3300
An area encompassing River Walk Landing, Yorktown Freight Shed and Watermans Museum, this is a meeting place and waterfront street of Historic Yorktown managed by the York County Parks System.
