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#5: Colonial Williamsburg, VA

Take a walk through history — literally, at the largest living history museum in the United States: Colonial Williamsburg, where the motto is "that the future may learn from the past." In the 1920s, the private non-profit foundation operates the restored 18th-century capital of colonial Virginia that, from 1699 to 1780, was the political, cultural, and educational center of what was then the largest of the American colonies. Tour the 300-plus acres of political sites, homes, public buildings, gardens, and tradeshops; and meet the townspeople (male and female, slave and free) who can tell your family about life in the 1700s.