- Ocmulgee National Monument is located near downtown Macon. It preserves some of the largest mounds in Georgia built by the Native Americans of the Mississippian culture a millennium ago. The park features a spiral mound, funeral mound, temple mounds, burial mounds, an earth lodge, as well as other smaller sites used for ceremonial purposes.
- Rose Hill Cemetery is one of Macon’s oldest cemeteries. It is a popular attraction with many fans of theAllman Brothers Band, as two members of the band (Duane Allman and Berry Oakley), are interred there, as are many Civil War soldiers.
- Harriet Tubman African American Museum - the largest African American museum in Georgia
- Hay House - also known as the “Johnston-Felton-Hay House”, it has been referred to as the “Palace of the South”
- Sidney Lanier Cottage - historical home to poet Sidney Lanier
- Neel Reid Federated Garden Club Center
- Cannonball House and Civil War Museum
- Woodruff House
- Douglass Theatre, historical African-American theater
- The Grand Opera House, home to the Macon Symphony Orchestra.
- Museum of Arts and Sciences and Planetarium
- Fort Hawkins, the original white settlement in the area
- City Hall, Georgia’s capitol for part of the Civil War
- City Auditorium, the world’s largest copper dome
- Macon Little Theatre, established in 1934, the area’s oldest community theatre producing 7 plays/musicals per season
- The Macon Terminal Station
- The Georgia Children’s Museum - Five Stories of interactive education located in downtown
- Ocmulgee Heritage Trail - a greenway of parks, plazas, and landmarks along the Ocmulgee River in downtown Macon