The Ironworks, Poe, and Broad Street Station
Virginia State Capitol remains a working government building designed from Thomas Jefferson's study of a Roman temple. American Civil War Museum interprets the war inside Tredegar Iron Works, which cast cannon and rolled armor for the Confederacy. Black History Museum occupies a restored 1895 armory built for Black soldiers.Virginia Museum of Fine Arts keeps general admission free every day and holds an encyclopedic collection that includes an exceptional group of Fabergé objects. The Poe Museum assembles manuscripts, personal objects, a childhood bed, a pocket watch, a coffin fragment, historic architecture, and an Enchanted Garden even though Poe never lived in its rooms.Science Museum of Virginia puts interactive labs, a makerspace, a 76-foot Dome, and a 29-ton stone globe inside a former train station. Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden adds expanded conservatories, native meadows, Wick Lake, and year-round butterflies to a public garden first promised in 1926. Admission, tours, special exhibitions, parking, and programs are separate from the PopHops Pass.