A horse-drawn carriage carrying visitors – the only type of vehicle other than an oxcart allowed in the historic portion of the re-created 18th-Century city – rolls past in 1705-1779 Virginia capitol in Colonial Williamsburg in Williamsburg, Virginia. Colonial Williamsburg is the world's largest living-history museum, boasting more than 600 buildings (88 of them original 18th-Century), more than 40 demonstration sites and trades, four historic taverns, and two art museums.