Montgomery Zoo
Animal habitats, Waters of the World, keeper talks, and the Mann Wildlife Learning Museum combine living behavior with preserved comparative collections.
United States: places and wildlife — page 57
Browse the published Explore collection for United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Alabama Gulf Coast Zoo
Big cats, primates, reptiles, birds, domestic animals, encounters, and shaded paths occupy a newer inland campus designed after repeated hurricane threats.
Red Hills Salamander
A long, dark, mostly subterranean salamander survives only in cool forested ravines across six south Alabama counties.
Alabama Red-bellied Turtle
This large basking turtle is centered in the lower Mobile–Tensaw system, where freshwater marsh, submerged vegetation, and nesting ground meet tidal influence.
Alabama Sturgeon
A small shovel-nosed sturgeon persists at vanishingly low numbers in the Alabama River system and is not an ethical sighting target.
Spring Pygmy Sunfish
This tiny sunfish survives in clear vegetated springs of the Tennessee Valley, where groundwater quantity and aquatic plants matter more than open water.
Black Warrior Waterdog
This permanently gilled waterdog lives beneath rock and ledges in streams of the Black Warrior River basin, surfacing a biodiversity story hidden below turbid water.
Flattened Musk Turtle
This small aquatic turtle is restricted to the upper Black Warrior drainage, where clean rocky streams and crevices offer feeding and refuge.
Alabama Canebrake Pitcher Plant
Tall yellow-green pitchers with reddish veins trap insects in sunny seepage bogs where groundwater keeps acidic soil wet but not deeply flooded.
Cahaba Lily
Broad white flowers rise from rocky shoals in fast, sunlit water, with Alabama’s Cahaba River supporting the best-known and largest accessible display.
High Museum of Art
European and American art, photography, decorative arts, African art, folk and self-taught work, and contemporary installations occupy a white ramped campus designed by Richard Meier and expanded by Renzo Piano.
Georgia Museum of Art
American painting, decorative arts, works on paper, European art, and the state collection share a university museum built around research, teaching, and changing exhibitions.
Telfair Museums
Telfair Academy, the Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters, and the contemporary Jepson Center connect art collecting, urban slavery, architecture, and new work across three nearby sites.
Morris Museum of Art
Painting, works on paper, photography, and changing exhibitions examine artists of the American South across race, region, training, and historical period.
Columbus Museum
American art, Chattahoochee Valley history, decorative arts, interactive spaces, and the Bradley Olmsted Garden connect collection objects to the region around them.
Museum of Aviation
Four hangars and outdoor fields hold military aircraft, missiles, cockpits, engines, uniforms, and stories linked to Robins Air Force Base from World War II onward.
National Infantry Museum
Immersive galleries move from the Revolutionary War through contemporary conflicts with weapons, uniforms, vehicles, oral histories, and the Last 100 Yards ramp.
National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Civil-rights history, the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. collection, interactive testimony, and global human-rights cases connect organized movements to choices made by individuals and institutions.
Atlanta History Center
Exhibitions, archives, gardens, the 1928 Swan House, Smith Farm, cyclorama painting, and Black community histories examine a city repeatedly remade by war, transportation, segregation, and growth.
Fernbank Museum of Natural History
Large dinosaur mounts, Georgia geology, cultural collections, science interactives, giant-screen films, and 75 acres of old-growth and restored woodland join deep time to a living Piedmont landscape.
Tellus Science Museum
A vast mineral gallery, fossil hall, transportation collection, planetarium, and hands-on fossil and gem areas connect earth processes to engineering and extraction.
Booth Western Art Museum
Large contemporary Western paintings and sculpture, presidential letters, Indigenous works, Civil War art, and temporary exhibitions reveal how national myths travel far from the places they depict.
Delta Flight Museum
Historic aircraft, a restored 1940s hangar, uniforms, route maps, advertising, and a full Boeing 747 trace Delta from crop dusting to global aviation.
World of Coca-Cola
Archives, advertising, bottling displays, scent and flavor interactives, the vault story, and international tasting turn a familiar product into a lesson in branding and distribution.
National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force
Aircraft, mission planning, POW testimony, archival film, artifacts, and a memorial garden interpret the Eighth Air Force’s European war.
Tubman Museum
Murals, folk and contemporary art, inventions, music, local history, and temporary exhibitions center African American creativity in Georgia and beyond.
Augusta Museum of History
Augusta’s river economy, transportation, medicine, military history, golf culture, and James Brown share galleries with a restored 1914 locomotive and trolley tours.
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historical Park
King’s birth home, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Fire Station No. 6, family businesses, streetscape, and gravesite connect biography to Black Atlanta institutions.
Jimmy Carter National Historical Park
Plains High School, the Boyhood Farm, campaign depot, railroad corridor, and community landscape connect Carter’s rural formation to civil rights, agriculture, faith, diplomacy, and public service.
Andersonville National Historic Site
The Civil War prison site, reconstructed stockade corners, Andersonville National Cemetery, and National Prisoner of War Museum address captivity from the 1860s through later conflicts.
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Fort rooms, breach damage, earthworks, river channels, Cockspur Island trails, and stories of confinement and emancipation connect engineering to the Civil War’s technological and political changes.
Fort Frederica National Monument
Archaeological foundations, tabby ruins, regiment history, river position, and live oaks preserve the town built to contest Spanish Florida in the 1730s.
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Battle lines, earthworks, fields, mountain trails, artillery positions, monuments, and museum exhibits preserve a pivotal landscape of the 1864 Atlanta Campaign.
Roosevelt’s Little White House State Historic Site
Roosevelt’s cottage, unfinished portrait, pools museum, cars, correspondence, and rehabilitation history show how polio and the surrounding community shaped a presidency.
Wormsloe State Historic Site
Colonial tabby ruins, museum exhibits, trails, demonstrations, and a dramatic live-oak approach interpret the Jones estate and Georgia’s early colony.
New Echota State Historic Site
Original and reconstructed buildings, the Cherokee Phoenix print shop, council house, Worcester home, and museum interpret the Cherokee Nation’s government before removal.
Chief Vann House State Historic Site
The 1804 brick mansion, cantilevered stair, period rooms, grounds, and exhibits interpret James Vann, Cherokee wealth, plantation slavery, violence, and dispossession.
Dahlonega Gold Museum State Historic Site
Inside the 1836 courthouse, mining tools, coins, geology, courthouse rooms, and film interpret the first major U.S. gold rush and the town built around it.
Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site
Farmhouse, cotton gin, sawmill, cane press, barns, engines, and household spaces preserve a family agricultural complex operating from the 1840s into the twentieth century.
Hofwyl-Broadfield Plantation State Historic Site
Museum exhibits, an oak-lined walk, family house, silver, outbuildings, and marsh landscape interpret a rice plantation and its later dairy era.
Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters
Regency architecture, a bridge stair, formal rooms, intact slave quarters, work yard, and surviving haint-blue ceiling make household power spatially legible.
Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace
Family rooms, decorative arts, art made by Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout history, and servant spaces connect one woman’s life to gender, disability, class, and civic organization.
Old Fort Jackson
Brick ramparts, powder rooms, artillery, harbor views, and demonstrations preserve Georgia’s oldest standing brick fort along the Savannah River.
Johnston–Felton–Hay House
The 1850s mansion combines a dramatic cupola, curved stair, painted finishes, ventilation, plumbing, and service systems created for Macon’s wealthy Johnston family.
Pasaquan
Seven acres of painted walls, temples, figures, pathways, costumes, and symbols form the visionary environment created by Eddie Owens Martin, who renamed himself St. EOM.
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Earth Lodge floor, temple and burial mounds, wetlands, museum collections, and trails document more than 12,000 years of human presence along the Ocmulgee River.
Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site
Six mounds, village area, defensive ditch, Etowah River setting, museum objects, and iconography preserve a major Indigenous political center occupied between about 1000 and 1550.
Kolomoki Mounds State Park
Large platform, burial, and ceremonial mounds, museum excavations, lakes, and forest preserve a major community active roughly 350–750 CE.