Discover Savannah

Places to visit in Savannah

Discover local landmarks and their stories. Open a place guide to plan your visit, or explore the city with a self-guided quest.

Explore the places ↓

Places worth exploring

Savannah

Colonial Cemetery

Colonial Park Cemetery is a historic burial ground in Savannah, Georgia, opened in 1750 and now a public park in the heart of the city. It served the whole town until it closed to burials in 1853, and it holds early resi…

Read the place guide

Savannah

Madison Square

Madison Square is one of the historic squares of Savannah, Georgia, laid out in 1837 on Bull Street and named for President James Madison. It is centred on a monument to Sergeant William Jasper, a Revolutionary War soldi…

Read the place guide

Savannah

The Sorrel Weed House

The Sorrel Weed House is one of Savannah's grandest antebellum mansions and one of its most persistently reported hauntings, which the house leans into with evening tours. It faces Madison Square.

Read the place guide

Savannah

The African-American Monument

The African-American Monument is a bronze memorial on the Savannah riverfront, beside East River Street in the city's historic district. It honours the African ancestors of many Americans and remembers the people who wer…

Read the place guide

Savannah

The Savannah Cotton Exchange building

The Savannah Cotton Exchange is a late 19th-century commercial building near the riverfront in Savannah, Georgia, built when cotton was the engine of the city's economy. It matters because it stands for the trade that ma…

Read the place guide

Savannah

The Vietnam Memorial

The Vietnam Memorial in Savannah stands in Emmet Park, the shady greenspace along East Bay Street, and honors local soldiers who served in the Vietnam War. It sits among several other monuments in a park that has long be…

Read the place guide

Savannah

The Waving Girl statue

The Waving Girl statue in Savannah, Georgia, is a bronze memorial to Florence Martus, who according to local legend greeted every ship entering the port for 44 years. It stands on the riverfront, looking out over the Sav…

Read the place guide

Savannah

The Olympic Torch Monument

The Olympic Torch Monument in Savannah, Georgia, recalls the city's part in the 1996 Summer Olympic Games. Although the Games were centered on Atlanta, Savannah hosted the yachting events, which put the city's sailing tr…

Read the place guide

Savannah

Telfair Academy

The Telfair Academy is a Regency-style mansion at 213 West State Street in Savannah, Georgia, now part of Telfair Museums, the oldest public art museum in the South. Designed by the English architect William Jay and comp…

Read the place guide

Savannah

Ellis Square

Ellis Square is one of the four original squares laid out in Savannah, Georgia, in 1733, and for more than two centuries it was the town's marketplace. Its history includes both everyday trade and the sale of enslaved pe…

Read the place guide

Savannah

Wright Square

Wright Square is one of the original public squares of Savannah, Georgia, laid out in 1733 and shaded today by old live oaks on Bull Street. It was the colony's place for public punishment and the site of the Georgia col…

Read the place guide

Savannah

Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace

The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace is a historic house museum on Oglethorpe Avenue in Savannah, Georgia, where the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA was born in 1860. Built in the Regency style, it is a National Hist…

Read the place guide

Turn a visit into an adventure