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The Telfair Academy on Telfair Square is a Regency mansion designed by William Jay and built in 1819 for the Telfair family. It opened as a public art museum in 1886, the oldest in the American South. It shows 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, period rooms, and the Bird Girl statue from the cover of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.

The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace on Oglethorpe Avenue is the Regency-style house, built in 1821, where the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA was born in 1860. Owned by the Girl Scouts and opened as a museum in 1956, it is restored to the 1880s and shows family furnishings, Low's own artwork and the story of the movement she started in Savannah in 1912.

The Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist near Lafayette Square is the mother church of the Catholic Diocese of Savannah. The French Gothic Revival building with twin spires was completed in 1876, rebuilt after a fire in 1898 and restored in 2000. Inside are stained-glass windows made in Austria and painted murals.

Bonaventure Cemetery lies on a bluff above the Wilmington River, about 5 km east of downtown Savannah, on the grounds of a former plantation. A city cemetery since 1907, it covers some 65 hectares of avenues of live oaks hung with Spanish moss, with Victorian monuments and the graves of the songwriter Johnny Mercer and the poet Conrad Aiken.

Wrigley Field is the ballpark of the Chicago Cubs baseball team in the Lakeview area of the North Side, opened in 1914 and the second-oldest park in Major League Baseball. Its outfield brick walls are covered in ivy and its scoreboard of 1937 is still turned by hand; besides games, guided tours of 75 to 90 minutes go behind the scenes.

Congregation Mickve Israel on Monterey Square was founded in 1733 by Jewish settlers, most of them Sephardic, who arrived from London months after the founding of Georgia; it is one of the oldest congregations in the United States. Its Gothic Revival synagogue was consecrated in 1878, and a small museum shows a Torah scroll brought by the first settlers and letters from early presidents.

The Mercer Williams House is an Italianate brick mansion on Monterey Square, begun for General Hugh Mercer, great-grandfather of the songwriter Johnny Mercer, and completed in 1868. The antiques dealer Jim Williams restored it from 1969, and a killing in the house in 1981 became the subject of the book and film Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Tours show the ground-floor rooms.

Forsyth Park is a 12-hectare city park at the southern edge of Savannah's historic district, laid out in the 1840s and 1850s. Its white cast-iron fountain of 1858 stands at the end of an avenue of live oaks hung with Spanish moss. The park also has a Confederate memorial, a fragrant garden, sports fields and a weekly farmers' market.

The United Center is an indoor arena on Chicago's Near West Side, opened in August 1994 to replace the Chicago Stadium across Madison Street. Seating up to 23,500, it is home to the Chicago Bulls and the Chicago Blackhawks and hosts concerts and other events; its atrium, added in 2017, holds statues of Michael Jordan and Blackhawks players.

The Garfield Park Conservatory is a large public greenhouse in Garfield Park on Chicago's West Side, built in 1906 to 1907 to a design by the landscape architect Jens Jensen, whose glass roof recalls a haystack. Its rooms show plants from around the world as naturalistic landscapes, including the Palm Room, the Fern Room and a children's garden.

Wormsloe State Historic Site on the Isle of Hope, about 15 km south-east of downtown Savannah, preserves part of the colonial estate of Noble Jones, one of Georgia's first settlers. A 2.4-km avenue lined with some 400 live oaks leads to the tabby ruins of his fortified house of the 1740s, the oldest standing structure in Savannah, a museum and a colonial life area.

The Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio is in Oak Park, a village bordering Chicago's west side. Wright built the shingled house in 1889 and added the studio in 1898, where he and his associates developed the Prairie style; he lived here with his family until 1909. Restored to its 1909 appearance, it is seen on guided tours of the interior.

The Chicago Botanic Garden lies in Glencoe, a suburb about 30 km north of downtown Chicago, on 156 hectares spread over nine islands in the Cook County forest preserves. Opened in 1972 and run by the Chicago Horticultural Society, it has 27 display gardens, among them a Japanese garden, and natural areas of woodland, prairie and lake shore.

Brookfield Zoo Chicago is a zoo in Brookfield, a suburb west of Chicago, opened in 1934 and called Brookfield Zoo until 2024. Its 87 hectares hold about 500 species, many in enclosures divided by moats and ditches instead of cages, with areas such as the indoor rainforest Tropic World and Great Bear Wilderness.

Stone Mountain Park lies about 25 km east of downtown Atlanta around Stone Mountain, a granite dome rising some 250 metres above the surrounding land. The state of Georgia bought it in 1958 as a memorial to the Confederacy, and its north face bears a carving of three Confederate leaders, completed in 1972. A trail and a cable car lead to the summit, and the park has lakes and woods.

The Atlanta History Center in Buckhead, north of downtown, is a history museum founded in 1926 on a 13-hectare campus. Its galleries cover Atlanta's past and the Civil War, and they display the restored Cyclorama painting of the Battle of Atlanta. The grounds include the 1928 Swan House mansion, the Smith Family Farm and historic gardens.

Truist Park is the baseball stadium of Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves, opened in 2017 in the Cumberland area of Cobb County, about 16 km north-west of downtown Atlanta. It seats about 41,000 and is surrounded by The Battery Atlanta, a district of restaurants, shops and a music venue.

The Atlanta Botanical Garden covers 12 hectares beside Piedmont Park in Midtown Atlanta and was incorporated in 1976. It has a tropical conservatory, an orchid house, a Japanese garden, an edible garden and the Kendeda Canopy Walk, a suspended walkway through the treetops of Storza Woods, and it stages seasonal exhibitions and a winter light show.

Piedmont Park is an 81-hectare public park in Midtown Atlanta, about 1.6 km north-east of downtown. Once a farm and a horse-racing ground, it hosted the Cotton States and International Exposition of 1895 and was later shaped by the Olmsted Brothers. It has Lake Clara Meer, lawns, sports fields, a dog park and a weekend farmers' market, and borders the Atlanta Botanical Garden.

The Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, east of downtown Atlanta, holds the papers of the 39th president and is run by the National Archives. Its museum covers Carter's life from his childhood in Plains, Georgia, to his presidency and humanitarian work, with a full-size replica of the Oval Office and his 2002 Nobel Peace Prize; Japanese gardens surround the buildings.