Downtown

See Byrd Park

There are fishing lakes, seasonal paddle boats, a fitness trail and the Dogwood Dell Amphitheater, home to the Summer Festival of Arts. The park abuts Maymount at the end of the Boulevard.

See Virginia Holocaust Museum

A museum dedicated to depicting the Holocaust as experienced by its victims. Exhibits include a recreation of the Dachau concentration camp, a cattle car, used for transporting Jews, a shower/gas chamber, a crematory, an exhibition of the ship Exodus 1947, the ship that helped launch the nation of Israel, and a rebuilt Nuremberg Courtroom.

See Virginia State Capitol

The neo-classical seat of local government, home of the oldest elected legislature in North America, dating back to 1619. The current incarnation was designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1785, after the Maison Carrée, a Roman temple in Nîmes, France. Free 1hr tours are offered on the hour, every from 10AM til 4PM. The Capitol Visitor center is closed through the end of 2023.

See The Historic Downtown

The cobblestoned Shockoe Bottom area is rich in history, and well-worth the trip, if only to see one of the many Edgar Allan Poe houses in the Northeast. Though much of the area was washed out during Hurricane Isabel and Tropical Storm Gaston, the rebuilding continues.

See Maymont Park

A wealthy landowner donated his estate to the city, and Richmond turned it into one of the most beautiful urban parks in the nation. Fountains, Italianate gardens, and a Japanese tea garden are a pleasure to walk through. The nature center here is all-encompassing and free, and its exhibits on Virginia Wildlife include two otters who are glad to show off for visitors. Gray foxes, red-tailed hawks, and other exhibits are located outside. Kids like the farm area, where sheep, lambs, chickens, and other sundry animals are exhibited.

See Robins Nature Center

A 29,000 sqft attraction, the largest facility of its kind in central Virginia and holds close to 30,000 gallons of aquaria showcasing animals of the James River and Chesapeake Bay.

See Maymont Mansion

Well-preserved Gilded Age mansion of cosmopolitan millionaires. Accessible by tour only.

See Museum of the Confederacy

Three floors of galleries containing the world's most comprehensive collection of artifacts, manuscripts, and photographs from the Confederate States of America. The Museum also maintains and gives tours of the White House of the Confederacy.

See First African Baptist Church

Richmond is the birthplace of the First African Baptist Church. This church had been a church where Whites, Free Blacks, and Slaves would worship alongside each other. However, the church separated from the First Baptist Church once African Americans were given permission to establish their own church in 1841. The First African Baptist Church was regularly rented by whites for concerts, minstrel shows and political rallies, including a debate by working-class whites over union versus secession, held in a church where a slave-owning white minister led free blacks and slaves in regular worship: surprising as the scene might seem, to Richmonders during this time it was wholly unremarkable. The old church building is now a property of Medical College of Virginia.

See Egyptian Building

This was the first building and home of the Medical College of Virginia, which now surrounds the structure.

See Gallery 5

This art gallery used to be an old fire station. In addition to art, they have an antique steam engine, a library, and a craft shop,.

See The American Civil War Center (Richmond National Battlefield Headquarters at Tredegar)

The site of a Civil War-era iron foundery which supplied ordinance to the Confederate Army. The American Civil War Center aims to be the definitive museum on interpretation of the conflaguration from all perspectives. Also on the grounds are a statue of Abraham Lincoln and his son Todd.

See Black History Museum

See Edgar Allan Poe Museum

A group of literary enthusiasts created the state's first monument to Poe in the writer's hometown. The Old Stone House is the oldest residential building that is still standing in Richmond. It houses an exhibit about Poe’s childhood in Richmond. Although Edgar Allan Poe never lived in the Old Stone House, he still had connections to the home itself and its surrounding neighborhood.

See The White House of the Confederacy (American Civil War Museum)

The White House of the Confederacy has been restored reflect its use as the executive mansion of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the Civil War. Open to the public with regularly scheduled guided tours that are arranged and given by the Museum of the Confederacy.

See Hollywood Cemetery

Located between the neighborhoods of Oregon Hill and Randolph on a bluff overlooking the James, Presidents Tyler and Monroe have their final resting places here. So does the locally renowned Jefferson Davis, and it's worth the trip through winding roads to see reverent Southerns laying flags on his grave. Also in the cemetery are Confederate Generals George Pickett and J.E.B. Stuart and local authors James Branch Cabell and Ellen Glasgow. The lines of small headstones marking the mass graves of Confederate dead is truly an eerie and powerful sight.

See Lucky Strike Factory

The Lucky Strike Factory has been renovated into stylish loft apartments and condos. A good view of the painted smoke stack can be seen from nearby Libby Hill park, where the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors monument is located.

See Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site

Maggie Lena Walker’s home is preserved as a tribute to her life as a civil rights leader, bank president and education leader in Jim-Crow Richmond Virginia. Ranger-led tours of the home start every hour starting at 10AM.

See Virginia Executive Mansion

Home to Virginia's governors since 1813 and the oldest governor's residence in the country still used for its original purpose. Half hour tours available from T-F 10AM-2PM.