If you are planning a spring break or already looking ahead to summer vacation, you’re probably scanning the travel blogs and websites for a list of an ideas.
When it comes to destinations right here in the United States to visit, TripAdvisor says there’s one Georgia city near the top of the list.
The travel website named Savannah among the top cities for its 2024 Best of the Best Travelers Choice Awards.
How are the Travelers Choice Awards decided? The travel website analyzed a high volume of “above-and-beyond” reviews from Tripadvisor users within the past year.
“Out of our 8 million listings, fewer than 1% achieve this milestone,” according to the travel site.
The Travelers Choice Awards breaks down the top 25 destinations into the following categories: trending destinations, top destinations, nature destinations, food destinations, culture destinations, honeymoon destinations and sustainable destinations.
Savannah finished at No. 5 in the food category and No. 18 in the top destination category. Why did Savannah make the list?
TripAdvisor users cite the seafood and Southern comfort food scene combined with the historical and haunting sites that the 250-year-old city has to offer.
1. Area 51 - $2,280 penalty. It is one of the most well-known military bases in the U.S. but few can see what goes on at the top-secret Air Force base.
2. Vatican Secret Archive - $275 penalty. The Vatican Secret Archive, also known as the Vatican Apostolic Archives, was one of the focal points of Dan Brown's
3. Little Hall’s Pond Cay - $50 penalty. A small island in the Bahamas had been the home of Jack Sparrow himself, Johnny Depp before he sold it to
4. Vale do Javari - undisclosed penalty. Brazil's government declared it illegal for anyone who is not from Vale do Javari to enter the territory.
5. Korean Demilitarized Zone - $155 penalty. The DMZ is the land between North and South Korea and is an active war zone, according to investing.com.
6. Maya Bay - undisclosed penalty. Maya Bay, while it may sound like it is in Mexico, it is actually in Indonesia and was made famous by the film
7. Aksai Chin - $500-$1,000 fine. The land is disputed between China and India. China claimed it in 2023, in a
8. Bohemian Grove - $1,000 fine or 6 months in jail. Business is not allowed in the grove, neither are trespassers at the secret society in Monte Rio, California.
9. Google Data Centers - $500-$5,000 penalty depending on location. Google has data hubs all over the world but only people who work there can be on the property.
10. Chapel of the Tablet - $25 to $250 - The chapel in Aksum, Ethiopia is supposed to be the where the Ark of the Covenant is held. One person is allowed to see the Ark in the church's catacombs, according to investing.com
11. Chauvet Cave - up to $16,000 penalty. The caves are home to one of the best prehistoric paintings. The general public are not allowed to tour it because of the historical significance, according to investing.com.
12. Tillamook Rock Lighthouse - $1,000 penalty. Tillamook Rock Lighthouse is inactive, and is on a rock about a mile off the Oregon shore.
13. Langley - $2,500 fine or 1 year in prison. Langley is technically an unincorporated town in McLean, Virginia, but it is also the CIA Headquarters.
14. Fort Knox - $1,000 or 6 to 12 months in prison. Fort Knox is an Army installation but is best known for holding half of the U.S. Treasury's gold.
15. Pluto's Gate - undisclosed penalty. Pluto's Gate (Ploutonion at Hierapolis) was a
16. Poveglia - $30 to $300 penalty. Poveglia dates back to 421 A.D. and was inhabited until 1379. Eventually a mental hospital was opened on the island in the 1922. When it closed, rumors of it being haunted began.
17. Niihau Island - Up to $1,000 penalty. Investing.com says about 84 people live on the Hawaiian island, each are native to the state and have their own dialect of the language. It is privately owned.
18. Chichen Itza Pyramid - $5,856 penalty. You can visit the pyramid from the outside, but you cannot climb it or go inside.
19. Surtsey - undisclosed penalty. Surtsey is a volcanic island in Iceland. It is protected by UNESCO for most visitors since it formed in the 1960s.
20. Grand Shrine of Ise - $712 or 3 years in prison. The shrine honors Amaterasu the Solar Goddess and while visitors can see the outside of the shrine, they cannot go inside, according to investing.com.
21. Mezhgorye - undisclosed penalty. Mezhgorye (Mezhgorya), according to investing.com,
22. North Sentinel Island - potential death. The few people who live on North Sentinel Island live in isolation and will defend their land by force, investing.com said.
23. Svalbard Global Seed Vault - undisclosed penalty. The seed vault in Norway protects the world's seeds of millions of plants as what investing.com called an
24. Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang - Death possibly. The mausoleum of the first Qin Emperor is said to contain deadly traps, causing the inside of his final resting place never to be excavated.
25. Morgan Island - $5,000 penalty. The South Carolina island is a nature preserve, home to free-range rhesus monkeys and people are not allowed to visit.
26. Pravcicka Brana - $9.21 for trespassing after dark. Pravcicka Brana is a thin rock formation and a large sandstone arch in the Czech Republic. You can't cross the arch but can see it from a distance.
27. Iiha da Queimada Granda - death. You could die by going to Iiha da Queimada Granda. Not because of people or the government, but because of the massive amounts of snake that live on the island called, what else, but
28. Lascaux Caves - up to $16,000. The caves include more than 600 prehistoric cave paintings on the walls and ceilings. They had been a tourist site but the number of visitors had an adverse effect on the paintings, according to investing.com.
29. Heard and McDonald Island - $1,500 penalty. The islands are in the Southern Ocean between Antarctic and Australia. It is protected as a World Heritage Convention.
30. Bhangarh Fort $6.07 penalty after dark. The fort is in India and was constructed in the 1500s, housing up to 10,000 people. Then one night it was deserted and is rumored to be cursed, according to investing.com. Visitors can go during the day, but it is prohibited at night.
31. North Brother Island - $250 or 15 days in jail. The New York island is near Rikers Island prison and had been a drug rehab before it was abandoned in 1963. It is now a bird sanctuary.
32. Bank of England vaults - up to $2,600 fine. The Bank of England's vaults hold 400,000 gold bars or about $257 billion worth.
33. Coca-Cola Vault - $1,000 or 1 year in jail. You can see the vault where the recipe for Coke is kept at the World of Coke in Atlanta, but you can't go inside it.
34. Navassa Island - undisclosed penalty. The 2.1 square mile island has been abandoned since the late 1800s, according to investing.com.
35. Diego Garcia - $500 fine or 6 months in prison. Diego Garcia is a militarized territory of the U.K.
37. Plymouth, Montserrat - $2,700 or 4 months in prison. The town is a ghost town after being evacuated in the 1990s after a nearby volcano erupted. Some areas can be visited, but others are prohibited.
38. Albatross Island - $2,500 fine or 1 year in prison. The island is known for the birds the land mass is named for, the albatross. They are vulnerable so humans are not allowed on the island.
39. Dulce Base - $500 fine or 6 months in prison. Dulce Base has been the center of conspiracy theories since the Cold War.
40. Woomera Prohibited Area - $2,500 fine or 1 year in prison. Prohibited is in the name of this location, which is a civil aerospace and military facility in Australia.
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