Depends on what you are looking for, but we had a great weekend in downtown Richmond not long ago. Great restaurants, nice parks and Civil War historical sites/museums, if you are into that. Downtown was nice, seemed safe, and very quiet on the weekend. Talking to some locals that asked why we were there, I told them that we had passed through on 95 hundreds of times, but had never stopped to see their sights, and it was worth it.