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Places worth the detour in Virginia

Detourmap lists 56 places in Virginia, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Chesapeake Bay. 49 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.

Archaeological31 Nature25
Places
56
Oldest
Fort C. F. Smith 1863
Little known
49 of 56
Share of United States
1%

Virginia 56

All 56, best known first.

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Questions about this page

What is the best known place worth the detour in Virginia?

Chesapeake Bay. Estuary in the U.S. states of Maryland, Delaware, District of Columbia, and Virginia. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.

How many places worth the detour are there in Virginia?

56: 31 archaeological & historic sites and 25 nature & landscapes. 49 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.

What is the oldest place on this map in Virginia?

Fort C. F. Smith, dated to 1863. 15 of the 56 places here carry a founding date at all.

What counts as Virginia here?

Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Virginia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Virginia is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.

Where does this information come from?

Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.