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Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home
No admission feeHouse museum in Savannah where author Flannery O'Connor spent her childhood years.
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Photo: John Muir, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and resized.
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Bonaventure Cemetery
Wander old tree-lined roadways past cemetery sculpture and the graves of Johnny Mercer and Conrad Aiken on a bluff above the Wilmington River.
330 Bonaventure Rd · Savannah, GA
About Bonaventure Cemetery
Bonaventure is a city-owned cemetery developed on the site of the former Bonaventure Plantation, on a bluff over the Wilmington River southeast of downtown Savannah. You walk or drive its old tree-lined roadways among sculpture, architecture and family plots. Songwriter Johnny Mercer and writer Conrad Aiken are buried here, and John Muir slept among the graves for six nights in 1867. The cemetery gained wide fame through the 1994 book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
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Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist
No admission feeStep inside a Gothic Revival cathedral near Lafayette Square to see its twin spires, painted murals and stained glass windows.
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Davenport House Museum
Under $25Historic house museum in Savannah, Georgia, centered on a preservation story and the lives of the people who lived there in the early 1800s.
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Forsyth Park
No admission feeStroll a 30-acre city park to its 1858 cast-iron fountain, then spread out on the lawns among monuments, courts and playgrounds.
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Congregation Mickve Israel
Check pricesA Reform synagogue in Savannah's Historic District, known for its historic sanctuary and museum.
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Savannah Historic District
No admission feeWalk a grid of 22 public squares, 18th- and 19th-century houses and the old cotton warehouses of Factors Row on the Savannah River.
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