Guides · Richmond
Richmond
33 places · 7 areas · a free route, then $4.99 for the whole city · offline map 5.9 MB
The free route
Free in the app, permanently, before you pay anything. 8 stops, 1 day, about 2.8 km, planned by the app's own engine.
Day 1 · ~2.8 km
1
Canal Walk
5th to 17th Sts along the Haxall and Kanawha canals; 1.25-mile riverfront walk with 22 bronze history medallions
Walk the canal towpath from Shockoe Slip west toward Tredegar, stopping at the bronze medallions set in the path.
2
Shockoe Slip Historic District
East Cary St around 12th to 14th Sts; old tobacco warehouse district rebuilt after 1865, on Belgian-block streets
Walk East Cary Street on the stone-block paving past the old warehouses, now restaurants and offices, and step down to the Canal Walk.
3
Virginia State Capitol
Capitol Square; Jefferson and Clérisseau's Roman temple of a capitol, begun in 1785
Walk up through Capitol Square to the temple front, then go inside to stand in the rotunda beneath the dome with Houdon's statue of George Washington.
4
Governor's Mansion
Capitol Square; Federal house of 1813, the oldest governor's residence still in use in the United States
See the house from Capitol Square, and go inside on one of the days tours are offered.
5
Monumental Church
1224 E. Broad St; Robert Mills's church of 1814 over the victims of the 1811 theatre fire
Look at the octagonal church and its monumental porch, and go in with a guide to see the crypt beneath.
6
Lumpkin's Jail Site
Shockoe Bottom near 15th St; archaeological site of the slave jail called the Devil's Half-Acre
Stand at the site on the Slave Trail and read the markers about the jail that once stood here.
7
Main Street Station
1020 E. Main St; 1901 station with a clock tower, home of the Shockoe Institute opened in 2026
Look up at the clock tower from Main Street, then go in to see the Shockoe Institute's exhibits on the city's role in the slave trade.
8
Edgar Allan Poe Museum
1914 E. Main St; Poe museum of 1922 in the Old Stone House, the city's oldest original house
See the manuscripts and first editions, then sit in the Enchanted Garden inspired by Poe's poem "To One in Paradise," and look out for the resident black cats.
More of the top sights
A few of the 33 places in the full guide. Each one has its own written guide in the app: what to do, what to notice, the history, and why it hits.
Hollywood Cemetery
412 S. Cherry St; garden cemetery of 1847 above the James, with the graves of two presidents
Maymont
Hampton St and Spottswood Rd; 100-acre Gilded Age estate above the James with gardens, a mansion and wildlife
Monument Avenue
the Fan westward; tree-lined boulevard of grand houses whose Confederate statues came down in 2020 and 2021
St. John's Episcopal Church
Church Hill; church of 1741 where Patrick Henry said give me liberty or give me death
Richmond Slave Trail
Manchester Docks to Shockoe Bottom; 2.5-mile trail of the slave trade, past the Reconciliation Statue
Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site
Jackson Ward; home of Maggie L. Walker, the first woman to head a successful bank
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Museum District; state art museum of 1936 with some 50,000 works, five Fabergé eggs and a sculpture garden
Areas
Capitol Square · Shockoe and Church Hill · Riverfront · Jackson Ward · Monument Avenue and the Fan · Museum District · Beyond Downtown
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