Top Georgia Culture - page 3

Cycle through Savannah during a small-group sightseeing tour by e-bike. Meet your guide and set out on a scenic bike ride through the Savannah Historic District and see top landmarks including Forsyth Park. Cover ground quickly with a battery-assisted e-bike and maximize time in Savannah. Explore the riverfront and learn about Savannah’s unique history and architecture along the way.

This Spooky Savannah haunted pub crawl combines two of the city’s best assets: a haunted history and a great party scene. As you walk through Savannah’s historic district, your guide shares spooky stories and points out sites of local lore, including four haunted pubs. Stop in for a drink and then take it to go as you walk to the next location.

Take a leisurely stroll through the Savannah Historic District on this guided walking tour. Together with a lifelong resident of Savannah, visit one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the US. See the historic homes as well as the houses of the South’s most famous generals. Visit the buildings from the war years of the 1860s. Learn about the town’s storied past, its African-American history, its military strategies, the important women who lived here, the Confederate States’ place in the Civil War and much more.

Atlanta is a city rife with history, especially from the Civil Rights era. Climb aboard a comfortable vehicle and get a closer look at the city’s Black history with your guide and small group. Drive down Auburn Avenue, learn about Black innovation at the Apex Museum, and see the birthplace and memorial tomb of Dr. Martin Luther King all over the course of the tour.

Discover the spooky side of Savannah with a haunted pub crawl. Meet your guide at Churchill's for this adults-only walking tour that includes a stop at Colonial Park Cemetery. Visit several different bars (drinks own expense) and hear spooky stories about local history, architecture, and landmarks. Maximize time in Savannah with a guided city stroll.

Learn about Savannah's nightlife and haunted side at the same time, and hear ghostly tales you won’t find in guide books, on this haunted pub crawl. With your guide to lead the way, visit several pubs, haunted streets, and squares around town with a seasoned guide who delves into chilling tales of the city's ghostly past.

Go beyond standard sightseeing with this guided architecture tour that highlights the architects that created Savannah’s historic structures. Learn about William Jay, who is considered the father of the city’s architecture, John Norris, Hyman Witcover, and William Gibbons Preston. Pass by overlooked sites like the Gryphon Tea Room and visit popular sites like the Mercer William House Museum.

Experience the haunting beauty and history of stunning Savannah on this Bonaventure Cemetery tour. Follow your expert guide just beyond the limits of the historic district and wander through the tombstones and gardens of this 170-year-old location. Learn about the lives of its famous inhabitants and why the cemetery is considered by locals to be the place where death and beauty meet.

No visit to Savannah is complete without a sightseeing tour by horse-drawn carriage. Let the gentle “clip-clop” of horses, and sway of the carriage, transport you to Savannah’s colorful past with one of our entertaining and informative tours. For nearly 50 years Carriage Tours of Savannah, the city’s first carriage tour company, has been featured in advertisements, videos & magazines, including The New York Times travel section as one of two great ways recommended to tour Savannah. Our 45-50-minute narrated tours, HISTORY BY DAY, AND SAVANNAH’S ONLY HORSE DRAWN GHOST TOUR BY NIGHT.

Discover more of Atlanta than you would exploring on your own with this small-group half-day sightseeing tour. Drive through Buckhead, Midtown, and Downtown for a comprehensive overview of the city. Depending on the day, also visit the Governor’s Mansion, Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Park, or Ponce Market.

The monumental Bonaventure Cemetery is one of the top sights in Savannah, but its sprawling size makes it daunting to cover on foot. With this golf cart tour, take in the most ornate graves and learn about the fascinating history of this landmark cemetery in just an hour without breaking a sweat. Listen to stories about the cemetery's past and the people buried here as you drive through the lush grounds.

Walk the streets of Atlanta historic Inman Park on a half-day guided walking tour and learn why this popular destination ranks tops among Atlanta's diverse food neighborhoods. Discover its history, sample regional delights and local cuisine from locally-owned restaurants, and explore the street art of the area like a local.

Discover some of the most haunted places in Savannah during a small-group ghost and pub walking tour. Meet your guide and set out on a city stroll that includes four popular pubs and bars. Learn about the history and haunted past of these watering holes as you raise a glass in each pub. Combine history with a night out during this walking tour.

We pride ourselves on fact-based history. That's why we don't give ghost tours. Savannah has so much dark history that we don't need to make up any! This tour begins with a brutal duel that took place in a bar that still exists to this day. We'll move on to discuss Savannah's first murder. You'll see the site of the colony's first cemetery and the grave of a Native who was crucial to Georgia's success. We'll visit the location where a more recent serial killer met a victim, then discuss Colonial Park Cemetery's past and present. Savannah saw a great deal of tragedy during the Revolution, and you'll learn about the toll it took. We'll tie things up at the site of a killing that ironically put Savannah on the pop culture map and helped lead to its booming tourist industry today. Please note that though some local ghost tours have recently rebranded themselves as "dark history" tours, we are the original! This is Savannah's only fact-based evening tour.

See Atlanta by bicycle on a tour that features beautiful neighborhoods, local artists, and historic landmarks. Cycling Atlanta can be intimidating if you don’t know the city's safe bike routes, but this tour is designed to follow quiet roads and paths. Along the way, you’ll get a local take on Atlanta’s vibrant culture, from a graffiti hotspot to the tree-lined lanes of Inman Park.

Discover a new side of Atlanta—and see the city's landmarks all lit up after dark—on this small-group, nighttime sightseeing tour. Meet your guide right in Downtown Atlanta, hop aboard your shuttle vehicle, and set off as the sun starts to set. You'll see local highlights ranging from Centennial Park and Mercedes Benz Stadium to Ponce City Market, the Old 4th Ward District, and more.

Set out on a twilight investigation of Savannah's true crime past with this walking cocktail tour. Meet your guide and go for a city stroll that includes both historic landmarks and cocktail bars. Combine sightseeing and happy hour with this tour that includes Oglethorpe Square and Colonial Park Cemetery. Grab to-go drinks and sip away during this walking tour focused on the murders, scandals, and crimes of passion in Savannah's history.

Get your Atlanta vacation off to a smooth start thanks to this private arrival transfer service from Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL). After landing, meet your driver directly at the terminal, receive their help with your bags, and hop aboard your private vehicle. From there, travel directly to your hotel or private residence in Downtown Atlanta, North Atlanta, Buckhead, Alpharetta, or Marietta.

Learn about Savannah’s history from a sixth-generation local who is passionate about sharing the city’s story. Covering six squares in historic downtown, the tour is unique in that it shares the historical perspective of Savannah’s Native American, African, and Irish inhabitants. Discover benches, shady spots, monuments, and restrooms along the route.

Seeing central Atlanta’s historic sites, landmarks, and architecture more quickly and efficiently than you could on foot when you opt for a Segway tour. After a safety briefing, hop on your Segway and visit the elegant homes in Ansley Park; the restaurant district; plus Centennial Olympic Park, host of the 1996 Olympic games and much more.

The Dead of Night tour visits some of Savannah's most haunted locations, whilst hearing the dark history of the city's most notorious characters who shaped one of America's oldest ports. Ghosts, spirits, demons, all lurk in the shadows, waiting to meet you on the dimly lit streets of the South's most intriguing city.

Explore the Bonaventure Cemetery with a guide during this small-group walking tour. Get picked up at your hotel in downtown Savannah for easy transportation to the cemetery. On arrival, walk through Bonaventure Cemetery with an academically trained historian who is full of stories about local history, heritage, and culture. Go for a stroll beneath the oaks and learn about Savannah’s past.

Explore historic Georgia without the hassle of navigating on your own on this guided tour to two major landmarks: Bonaventure Cemetery and Wormsloe Historic Site. Along with pickup from hotels in Savannah's Historic District, you'll get guided access at both sites, plus you'll see the 18th-century Plantation Tabby Ruins. To top off the trip, you'll stop by Savannah Byrd Cookie Company headquarters for tastings of their famous treats.

Take a leisurely stroll through the squares and streets of the Savannah Historic District on this walking tour. Together with a resident of Savannah, visit one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the US. See the historic homes as well as the houses of the South’s most famous generals. Visit the buildings from the war years of the 1860s and learn about the town’s storied past.