Busch Gardens & Water Country USA
Busch Gardens Williamsburg is an action-packed, European-themed park with 17th century charm and 21st century technology, boasting more than 100 acres of unparalleled fun and adventure for the entire family. Adjacent Water Country USA is the mid-Atlantic's largest family water play park featuring state-of-the-art water rides and attractions all set to a 1950s and '60s surf theme.

Children's Museum of Virginia
221 High Street, Portsmouth, (757) 393-5258
Open daily, closed Mondays Labor Day through Memorial Day
VA's largest children's museum, offering more than 80 hands-on exhibits, temporary rotating exhibits, a planetarium and a $1 million antique toy and model train collection.

Chrysler Museum of Art
245 West Olney Road, Norfolk
Open Wednesday-Saturday 10am-5pm; Sunday 1pm-5pm
World-renowned art museum displaying over 4,000 years of art including the largest Tiffany glass gallery on the east coast.

Commodore Theatre
421 High Street, Portsmouth, (757) 393-6962
Luxuriously restored 1945 Art Deco-style motion picture theater that shows first-run movies while serving light dinners. Among the many features: a 42-foot screen, THX Digital sound system, upholstered seating and crystal chandeliers.

Courthouse Galleries
(757) 393-8393
Open daily (closed Mondays Labor Day-Memorial Day)
The exhibits featured in this dramatic setting encompass Eastern, Western, multicultural, traditional and contemporary art forms that inspire interest and understanding of our rich and diverse global heritage.

Downtown Norfolk
(800) 368-3097
Waterside Festival Marketplace - Shops, dining, dance clubs, and harbor cruises.
MacArthur Center - Upscale shopping mall anchored by Nordstrom and Dillard's.

Ntelos Pavilion Harbor Center
901 Crawford Street, Portsmouth, (757) 393-8181; (757) 391-3260 Ticket Info
A unique waterfront concert venue offering a variety of entertainment.

Hampton History Museum
120 Old Hampton Lane, Downtown Hampton, (757) 727-1610
Monday - Saturday 10-5, Sunday 1-5
Experience 400 years of history under one roof! From the Kecoughtan Indians to a modern city of space research, diverse stories with amazing parallels to our nation's history.

Ocean Breeze Waterpark
849 General Booth Boulevard, Virginia Beach, (757) 422-4444
Open daily from Memorial Day through Labor Day each summer.
Runaway Bay wave pool, the Buccaneer Bay children's area and other fantastic attractions. While visiting Ocean Breeze Waterpark, check out the West Indies BBQ, Island Trader Gift Shop, or Shipwreck Island Arcade.

The Historic Triangle
The world's largest living history museum-the restored 18th-century capital city of Britain's largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World. Here we interpret the origins of the idea of America, conceived decades before the American Revolution. The Colonial Williamsburg story, "Becoming Americans," tells how diverse peoples, having different and sometimes conflicting ambitions, evolved into a society that valued liberty and equality.

Colonial Williamsburg
(757) 229-1000
In 1607, 13 years before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, a group of 104 English men and boys began a settlement on the banks of Virginia's James River. They were sponsored by the Virginia Company of London, whose stockholders hoped to make a profit from the resources of the New World. The community suffered terrible hardships in its early years, but managed to endure, earning the distinction of being America's first permanent English colony.

Jamestown Settlement and Yorktown Victory Center
(888) 593-4682
America's evolution from colonial status to nationhood is chronicled through a unique blend of timeline, film, thematic exhibits and outdoor living history. An outdoor exhibit walkway details events that led to American colonies to declare independence from Britain.

The Mariners' Museum
100 Museum Drive, Newport News, (757) 596-2222
Features more than 35,000 maritime items, including ship models, scrimshaw, maritime paintings, decorative arts, intricately carved figureheads, working steam engines, and more.

The Virginia Air & Space Center
600 Settlers Landing Road, Hampton, (757) 727-0900
Dozens of hands-on air and space exhibits, a premiere interactive aviation gallery that spans 100 years of flight, more than 30 historic aircraft, unique space flight artifacts, IMAX Theater and more!

The Virginia Living Museum
524 J. Clyde Morris Boulevard, Newport News, (757) 595-1900
Open Labor Day - Memorial Day, Monday-Saturday 9am-5pm; Sunday noon-5pm.
Extended summer hours apply.
A spectacular combination of a native wildlife park, science museum, aquarium, botanical preserve and planetarium.

Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center
717 General Booth Boulevard, Virginia Beach, (757) 425-FISH
Open daily 9:00am-5:00pm; extended summer hours apply.
800,000 gallons of aquariums, live animal habitats, more than 300 hands-on exhibits, a 1/3-mile nature trail, a 1/2-acre aviary, and an IMAX movie theatre.

The Virginia Zoo
3500 Granby Street, Norfolk, (757) 624-9937
Open daily 10:00am-5:00pm
The Okavango Delta African plains exhibit is an eight-acre, naturalistic exhibit adding nine new species to the Zoo, including zebra, lion, giraffe, red river hog, and meerkat. Elephants, rhinos and Siberian tigers add to the family fun.