Savannah

Perry Lane Hotel

Historic District (Perry Street)

The district's luxury standard-bearer — art-stuffed interiors, a rooftop pool deck with the Peregrin bar's spire views, Chatham Square manners with contemporary polish, and the wine-and-leather lobby the city envies.

The Marshall House

Broughton Street

Savannah's oldest hotel, 1851 — the Broughton Street veranda, Civil War hospital history it tells honestly, famous resident hauntings, and creaking-floor charm at rates the new builds can't touch.

The DeSoto

Madison Square / Liberty Street

The grand-hotel name since 1890, rebuilt tall — spire-and-rooftop views from the district's only high floors, a pool deck over Madison Square, oyster-bar dining, and full-service scale two blocks from the Bull Street spine.

Hamilton-Turner Inn

Lafayette Square

The French Empire wedding cake on Lafayette Square — 17 rooms in the 1873 mansion from the Midnight pages, four-posters and clawfoots, Southern breakfast included, and the cathedral's bells for an alarm clock.

The Alida

Riverfront / Factors Walk

The riverfront's design hotel — maker-movement interiors over Factors Walk, The Lost Square rooftop bar's bridge-and-river panorama, and contemporary cool a staircase above River Street's cobbles.

The Kehoe House

Columbia Square

The Renaissance Revival inn on Columbia Square — a 13-room 1892 mansion of ironwork and intimacy, adults-only calm, chef breakfasts at the communal table, and the gentlest of the city's famous hauntings.

JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside

Plant Riverside / West River Street

The power plant reborn as spectacle — a chrome dinosaur under restored turbines, geode and gem halls, three riverfront buildings of rooms, rooftop bars dueling over the channel, and a district of restaurants built in.

Savannah's Historic Squares

Twenty-two live-oak parlors on a 1733 grid — Oglethorpe's town plan intact, each square its own room of moss, monuments, and mansions. Free, walkable, and the entire reason the city looks like this.

Forsyth Park

Thirty acres closing the district's southern end — the white fountain every postcard leads with, oak allées hung with moss, Saturday farmers market, and the lawn where the whole city takes its golden hour.

Old Town Trolley Hop-On Hop-Off

The orange-and-green trolleys that solve the district — a 90-minute narrated loop of 15 stops covering squares, river, and mansions, with all-day hop-off rights and conductors who've turned local history into stand-up.

River Street & Factors Walk

The cotton century's waterfront — ballast-stone cobbles, five-story warehouses turned taverns and praline shops, container ships sliding past at conversation distance, and the iron bridges of Factors Walk overhead.

Ghosts & Gravestones Night Tour

America's most haunted city makes its case from a night trolley — yellow-fever history, the Sorrel-Weed's dark rooms, exclusive after-hours stops, and gravedigger-costumed guides balancing chill and archive.

American Prohibition Museum

The country's only museum of the dry years — wax-figure raids, temperance propaganda, rum-runner cars, and moonshine lore, finishing in a working 1920s speakeasy where the password gets you a proper cocktail.

Davenport House Museum

The house that saved Savannah — the 1820 Federal mansion whose 1955 rescue launched the preservation movement, toured room by room with the city's best-told story of how the whole district nearly vanished.

Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist

The twin white spires over Lafayette Square — French Gothic at full sail, a painted nave of Bavarian glass and gold stars, free to visit, and the skyline's only serious rival to the moss. Savannah's most beautiful interior.

Wormsloe Historic Site

The avenue of oaks — a mile and a half of 400 live oaks arching over the drive to Georgia's oldest standing structure, the tabby ruins of a 1740s fortified homestead on the marsh. The South's most photographed road.

Bonaventure Cemetery

The garden cemetery that haunted a bestseller — 100 acres of sculpted angels and oak cathedrals over the Wilmington River, Johnny Mercer's bench, little Gracie's shrine, and the South's most beautiful silence. Free, daytime only.

Savannah Riverboat Cruises

Paddlewheel decks on the working river — narrated harbor sightseeing past the port's giants, dinner-and-jazz evening sailings, and the skyline-from-the-water angle River Street can't give itself.

Savannah Pirates & Treasure Museum

Real shipwreck gold and the Golden Age told straight — recovered treasure from famous wrecks, Blackbeard's Savannah connections, interactive decks for the kids, and the district's swashbuckling hour done with actual artifacts.

Tybee Island

Savannah's beach, twenty minutes east — three miles of wide Atlantic sand, Georgia's oldest lighthouse with its 178-step view, the pier's fried-shrimp baskets, and dolphin creeks behind the dunes. The city's exhale.