Chincoteague, VA just off the Virginia coast is the gateway to the 37-mile-long Assateague Island National Seashore a nature refuge that’s home to wild ponies, herons, woodpeckers, and foxes. Stay: A Victorian-era home has been turned into Miss Molly’s Inn, a seven-room B that offers high tea in the afternoons.Eat: The Chincoteague Diner. Fill up on baskets of fried seafood (flounder, scallops, shrimp) or barbequed baby back ribs.