Hamburg State Park near Jewell and Mitchell in Washington County, Georgia, USA, spans 741 acres around a serene 225-acre Hamburg Lake fed by the Little Ogeechee River.
The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Savannah, Georgia, stands as a stunning French Gothic Revival landmark built primarily between 1873 and 1896, with its twin spires reaching 214 feet.
Robert Toombs House Historic Site in Washington, Georgia, USA, serves as a museum preserving the elegant Greek Revival home built between 1794 and 1801 by Dr. Joel Abbott and acquired in 1837 by Robert Toombs, a fiery Georgia politician, U.S. senator, Confederate Secretary of State, and brigadier general who championed secession.
Pickett's Mill Battlefield State Historic Site in Paulding County near Dallas, Georgia, USA, preserves one of the nation's best-preserved Civil War battlefields across 765 acres, where on May 27, 1864, during Sherman's Atlanta Campaign, 14,000 Union troops under Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard clashed fiercely with 10,000 Confederates led by Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne in a failed flanking maneuver.
Little Ocmulgee State Park & Lodge spans 1,360 acres north of McRae-Helena, Georgia, USA, along the Little Ocmulgee River amid sand hills and pine forests, with parts built by the Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s around a natural river diversion forming a 265-acre lake featuring a white sandy beach.
Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site near Juliette in Jones County, Georgia, USA, preserves a rare middle-class cotton plantation owned continuously by one family for over 140 years from 1847 until donated to the state in 1974.
Atlanta Botanical Garden in Atlanta, Georgia, spans 30 acres next to Piedmont Park, founded in 1976 as a nonprofit dedicated to plant collections for display, education, research, conservation, and enjoyment.
Skidaway Island State Park near Savannah, Georgia, USA, spans 588 acres on a barrier island along the Intracoastal Waterway's Skidaway Narrows, featuring maritime forests of live oaks draped in Spanish moss and expansive salt marshes teeming with fiddler crabs, egrets, raccoons, deer, and painted buntings.
Unicoi State Park & Lodge, a 1,050-acre haven north of Helen in Georgia's Chattahoochee National Forest, USA, centers on the scenic 53-acre Unicoi Lake formed by Smith Creek, drawing crowds for its vibrant fall foliage and Cherokee-named landscapes established in 1954.
Stephen C. Foster State Park covers 120 acres in Charlton County near Fargo, Georgia, USA, serving as a primary gateway to the legendary Okefenokee Swamp—one of Georgia's Seven Natural Wonders and North America's largest blackwater wetland.
High Falls State Park near Jackson in Monroe County, Georgia, USA, spans 1,050 acres along the Towaliga River and features the largest waterfall in middle Georgia, cascading 135 feet over scenic rock shoals.
The Old Sorrel-Weed House Museum and Tours in Savannah, Georgia, is a grand 16,000-square-foot Greek Revival and Regency mansion built between 1835 and 1840 for wealthy merchant Francis Sorrel, who profited from shipping and the slave trade, on the site of a former British Revolutionary War fort near Madison Square.
Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park in Atlanta, Georgia, preserves sites central to the life and civil rights legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., covering about 35 acres along Auburn Avenue.
Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, spans 22 acres as a lasting legacy of the 1996 Summer Olympics, transforming former vacant lots and industrial sites into a vibrant public gathering space built in two phases for $43 million.
Amicalola Falls State Park & Lodge in Dawsonville, Georgia, USA, spans 829 acres in the Chattahoochee National Forest and centers around Amicalola Falls, the state's tallest waterfall at 729 feet, named from Cherokee for tumbling waters and one of Georgia's Seven Natural Wonders.
Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta, Georgia, was founded in 1850 as the city's first public burial ground on six acres of farmland southeast of downtown, later renamed in 1872 for its abundant oak trees and expanded to 48 acres in the Victorian garden cemetery style.
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Museum in Savannah, Georgia, occupies the historic Federal-style home built in 1821 where Girl Scouts founder Juliette Daisy Gordon Low was born in 1860 and lived during the Civil War amid her prominent family.
Indian Springs State Park near Flovilla and Jackson in middle Georgia, USA, spans 528 acres and ranks as one of the nation's oldest state parks, acquired from the Creek Indians via the 1825 Treaty of Indian Springs and continuously operated by the state since.
