The Virginia Haunted Trail

Virginia's haunted network stretches from Tidewater plantation houses and Colonial Williamsburg's interpreted taverns down through the Shenandoah Valley to Blue Ridge college campuses and Civil War battlefields near the North Carolina line. More than one hundred seventy sites are open to visitors here, most of them public landmarks, working inns, and museums that already invite a walk-through. A handful of true-crime roads and private residences didn't make this list, held back because visiting them respectfully just isn't possible. The coastal corridor carries the deepest concentration of stops, and that's the ground our featured Tidewater weekend loop covers, a curated two-day cut through the busiest, best-documented part of the state.