Atlantic Beach Club/Haunted House & 3-D Mini Golf The Haunted Fun House and Beach Club complex has been entertaining Hampton Roads for the past 23 years. It features live actors, high-tech special effects, and theatrical sets and scenes, creating the ultimate experience in fear. The Atlantic Beach Club, part of the Haunted Fun House complex, has an arcade and can accommodate up to 200 people for birthday parties, teen dances, concerts, team sports activities, and fundraising events. Enjoy indoor 3-D Black Light Minigolf Putt Putt through 9 holes of an under-the-sea adventure. Don't miss the ghostly gift and mask shop!
Cape Henry Lighthouse The Cape Henry Lighthouse is the first lighthouse structure authorized, fully completed, and lighted by the federal government. It is an octagonal stone structure and the first of three lighthouses to be built by John McComb, Jr. The tower was completed in October, 1792, and it was lighted in that same month. Today, the old Cape Henry Lighthouse silently guards the entry way into the Chesapeake Bay.
Ferry Plantation House The Ferry Plantation dates back to 1642 when the "ferry" service was started by Adam Thoroughgood to connect plantations by the waterway. The 3rd Princess Anne Courthousebuilt in 1735 including stock and pillory once stood on this site. The House that is visited today replaced the Walke Manor house that was built in 1740 and was later destroyed by fire. Ferry's dig site exposes the original brick floor. The good bricks salvaged from the ruins were used to build this 1830 dwelling. It is a ten room, central passage plan Federal farm house facing the Western Branch of the Lynnhaven River. Near this site was the famous trial of Virginia's only convicted witch, Grace Sherwood. Grace was tried by water in 1706.
Francis Land House The Francis Land House is a 200 year old plantation home that features period rooms furnished with antiques and reproductions that are representative of the Gentry class lifestyle of the 18th and early 19th centuries. The site features herb, formal, and vegetable gardens.
Lynnhaven House The Lynnhaven House is located on five and a half acres of land which includes a small woods and gardens of herbs, vegetables, flax, cotton, peanuts, and tobacco. Based on dendrochronology testing, the wood for the house was cut in the fall of 1724, thus the house was probably constructed in 1725. The house was restored in the 1970's and is 80-85% original. Lynnhaven House offers its guests much more than a display of architecture and decorative arts. Within its walls and on its grounds, household skills and the various crafts that produced the early lifestye are still practiced; creating an atmosphere that transforms your visit into a truly colonial experience. Docents dressed in 18th century attire provide 45-60 minute tours of the furnished home.
Old Coast Guard Station Housed in a 1903 former Life-Saving Station, the museum tells the story of the men who served in the US Life-Saving Service and the US Coast Guard. Visitors to the museum galleries are given an insight into the early days of shipwrecks along the Virginia coast and the efforts of the life-savers at the stations. Our interactive tower camera enables the visitor to view vessels entering the port of Hampton Roads as well and scan the new boardwalk and beach.
Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center Explore more than 800,000 gallons of aquariums and take a journey of water through Virginia. Stroll through the indoor Coastal River Room where birds and turtles roam free, marvel at a 50,000 gallon aquarium with the largest collection of Chesapeake Bay fish in the world and touch gentle stingrays, horseshoe crabs and other marine life. The aquarium also has more than 300 interactive exhibits, 1/2-acre aviary, and "larger than life" movies on an IMAX 3D movie screen. Seasonal boat trips for dolphin watching, whale watching and ocean collections are also available.
