Best places: Historical place museums in Virginia

The 1750s home of Virginia statesman George Mason, featuring Georgian design & 250-year-old shrubs.

Modest 2-story family home of Patsy Cline from 1948 to 1953, now with a gift shop.

Historic 1800s home of a renowned Confederate general, featuring period furnishings & guided tours.

The largest Confederate collection, interpretive exhibits & tours of the Confederate White House.

This white-frame house was purchased by George Washington in 1772 for his mother, Mary.

Museum of colonial medicine with vivid, 1st-person tours in a restored 18th-century building.

Replica of the house where the founding father & first president spent his youth, with guided tours.

Restored 1700s house museum with tours by costumed interpreters, artifacts & demonstration gardens.

Virginia's first plantation, this still-operating estate farm offers a peek into 17-century America.

Artifacts & prisoner graffiti in a 1840 building relating the story of this north-south border town.

Stately house of a 19th-century Jewish merchant, with period furniture & personal effects displayed.

Quaint, mid-19th-century home & farm with antiques, vintage tools & seasonal Victorian tea events.

👍👍 This unassuming "plantation" may well be the best-documented four hundred year slice of English and Native American and African American history which anyone can still visit on the North American continent. And it might be the least expensive educational experience you will ever find again. This is...

Tours of a 19th-century plantation house with outbuildings, restored slave quarters & a rose garden.

Enduring home & plantation from 1769 with tours, exhibits, Civil War reenactments & special events.

👍👍 I took small kids and we were there for hours! It’s free if you don’t take a tour and I hadn’t realized there were several buildings that were part of the complex. Pull the church bell! Pretend to draw water from the well! There is 1 building that is behind the parking lot and hard to see, the Hail...

👍👍 Tucked away on the Afton Mountain is the gorgeous mansion built in 1912. You would miss the mansion if you didn't know about it. Even locals (including myself) have never been there! Well until recently. Visiting the mansion was my birthday gift this year(2019). We took the self guided tour, which w...

The oldest in the state, this landmark, 17th-century church features guided tours & a gift shop.