Visit the Charles Theater for the best place to see first-run independent and fringe films, foreign films and repertory in the entire city.
Head downtown to enjoy an intimate concert at Ottobar. This limited-capacity nightlife venue provides a very personal experience with the local and national performing artists that play here. National headliners who have visited this venue include The White Stripes, Death Cab For Cutie, The Rapture, Jimmy Eat World, Maroon 5 and more.
Get some fresh air as you take an outdoor nature walk through the Ladew Topiary Gardens. This 22-acre garden, built around a manor house from 1747, presents one of the most outstanding topiary gardens in the country. Walk though the extensively groomed and molded shrubbery and explore the 15 garden rooms, each dedicated to a single plant, color, or theme.
Take a break from the concrete jungle at the smaller, 6-acre Sherwood Gardens. Located in the Guilford neighborhood, this public garden began as an outdoor hobby of John W. Sherwood in the 1920s and originally consisted of a few of his tulips imported from the Netherlands. Now, Sherwood Gardens contains approximately 80,000 tulip bulbs and hundreds of other plants collected from the gardens of Colonial estates.