Nine WWII-era ships built from concrete instead of steel were sunk here in 1948 to make a breakwater, and they still loom just off the beach like a half-sunk ghost fleet near Cape Charles.
Road trips · Virginia
Virginia road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Virginia — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
Crowd-nominated in the Gem Hunt. Add yours and vote the finalists into the app.
The oldest continuously operating show cave in the country, open since 1806, where Civil War soldiers scrawled their names between towering "shield" formations, in the Shenandoah Valley near Grottoes.
Locals call it the Grand Canyon of the South, a thousand-foot gorge where the Russell Fork River carves clean through Pine Mountain, tucked in Virginia's far southwestern corner on the Kentucky line.
A 30-foot No. 2 pencil juts off the side of an old office-supply store in Wytheville, a 1960s stunt that outlived the business — the perfect goofy photo stop where I-77 and I-81 cross.
A tiny two-room pizzeria on a railroad-town backroad that's hand-made the same dough since 1977 and once got crowned best pizza in the world by a travel guide, eleven miles west of Charlottesville.
An 850-foot limestone tunnel that Appalachian trains still rumble through, with a chairlift dropping you 250 feet into Stock Creek Gorge, in the far southwest corner near Duffield.
Tee it up
Public golf you can book in Virginia.
Providence Forge · $$$ — Irish linksland dropped into Virginia
Toano · $$$ — Rock outcrops and forced carries
Plan the Virginia trip
Get the scenic route, the stops, and the timing.
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