Sightseeing Tours & Trips in Mid Atlantic

Tour Thomas Jefferson's Monticello estate in Charlottesville and George Washington's Mount Vernon plantation, walking through their homes, gardens, and Washington's burial site. In Colonial Williamsburg, you'll see costumed reenactors bring the 1770s to life on cobblestone streets before having dinner at a Colonial-style tavern. Check out Washington D.C.'s memorials like the Lincoln Memorial, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and National World War II Memorial, with free time to visit Smithsonian museums such as the National Air and Space Museum.

Take a full-day coach trip from Manhattan to Washington DC and check out the Capitol, White House, and moving monuments around the National Mall. Back in New York, walk through Harlem's historic streets, stroll around Central Park's massive 800-hectare green space, then cross the iconic Brooklyn Bridge to DUMBO for great Manhattan views. You'll find a hidden tennis court at Grand Central Terminal, have authentic Chinese lunch in Chinatown, and grab pizza at one of Brooklyn's famous spots near Domino Park.

See the National World War II Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Korean War Veterans Memorial, and Vietnam Veterans Memorial during twilight tours of Washington DC's iconic monuments. Walk through Colonial Williamsburg's cobblestone streets with historical reenactors bringing 1770 to life. Tour George Washington's Mount Vernon estate and gardens, then visit Thomas Jefferson's UNESCO-listed Monticello plantation home. Check out The Greenbrier's secret Cold War bunker hidden beneath the resort in White Sulphur Springs.

You'll tour George Washington's Mount Vernon estate with its formal gardens and Washington's Tomb, then see Thomas Jefferson's Palladian-style Monticello mansion that he designed and redesigned over 40 years. Walk the grounds of Gettysburg National Military Park where Lincoln gave his famous address, and check out the Gettysburg Museum of the American Civil War with the Battle of Gettysburg Cyclorama.

In Philadelphia, check out Independence National Historic Park, a UNESCO site where you'll see the Liberty Bell and Independence Hall—the actual room where the Declaration of Independence was signed. Later, walk along the National Mall in Washington, D.C., which stretches from the Lincoln Memorial all the way to the Capitol Building, and you can stop at the World War II and Vietnam War memorials along the way. You'll also visit George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate in Virginia and tour Thomas Jefferson's Monticello in Charlottesville, then head to Gettysburg National Military Park where a Local Specialist brings the famous Civil War battlefield to life.

Check out the White House Visitor Center to see artifacts from the presidential residence, then pick between a walking tour retracing the Lincoln Assassination or visiting the International Spy Museum. Tour the Washington National Cathedral where MLK gave his last sermon and watch the changing of the guard at the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington.

You'll step inside the Palladian walls of George Washington's Mount Vernon estate with its formal gardens, then head to the American Revolution Museum at Yorktown before sitting down to a Colonial-style candlelight dinner at the historic Dobbin House Tavern in Gettysburg.