The Queen's Staircase in Nassau consists of 66 steps carved from solid limestone by enslaved people between 1793 and 1794. The stairway connects Fort Fincastle to Nassau's southern road network. Fort Fincastle itself was completed in 1793 under Lord Dunmore and resembles the bow of a ship when viewed from above. The fort stands 126 feet above sea level and contains four cannons that face the harbor. Fort Charlotte, constructed between 1787 and 1789, covers approximately 100 acres on the western ridge of Nassau and includes a moat, dungeons, and underground passageways. The fort was named for King George III's wife and never fired a shot in battle. Parliament Square in Nassau contains a statue of Queen Victoria erected in 1905 and features pink and white colonial buildings that house the Senate and House of Assembly. These structures date to the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
The Pompey Museum occupies Vendue House, a two-story building constructed in 1769 that once served as a slave auction house on Bay Street. The museum opened in 1992 and documents the history of slavery in the Bahamas through artifacts, documents, and oral histories. Pompey was an enslaved man who led a rebellion on Exuma in 1830. The Balcony House on Market Street represents the oldest wooden residential structure in Nassau, built sometime before 1790, featuring a mahogany staircase and the only residential balcony of its type remaining in the city. The Pirates of Nassau Museum recreates the Golden Age of Piracy from 1690 to 1720 using life-size replicas of buildings, ships, and figures from Nassau's period as a pirate sanctuary under figures including Blackbeard and Charles Vane. The hole expands from a 82-foot diameter entrance to a cavern 330 feet wide approximately 66 feet down. The site hosts the annual Vertical Blue freediving competition where William Trubridge set a no-fins freediving world record of 331 feet in 2016. Thunderball Grotto near Staniel Cay in the Exumas consists of a system of underwater limestone caves accessible through three separate openings during low tide. The grotto was featured in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball and the 1983 film Splash. Sunlight enters through holes in the cave ceiling, illuminating schools of sergeant majors, yellowtail snapper, and Nassau grouper.
Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park spans 176 square miles and was established in 1958 as the first no-take marine protected area in the Caribbean. The park extends 22 miles from Wax Cay Cut to Conch Cut and prohibits all fishing and removal of marine life. Populations of Nassau grouper, Caribbean spiny lobster, and queen conch within the park boundaries are measurably higher than surrounding areas according to Bahamas National Trust surveys. Hawksbill and green sea turtles nest on the park's beaches between May and October. Lucayan National Park on Grand Bahama contains 40 acres and protects one of the longest mapped underwater cave systems in the world at over 6 miles. The park includes two caves, Ben's Cave and Burial Mound Cave, connected by a system containing both freshwater and saltwater environments. Lucayan remains and artifacts discovered in Burial Mound Cave in 1986 date to approximately 1000 CE.
Inagua National Park covers 287 square miles of Great Inagua, roughly half the island's total land area. The park was established in 1965 to protect the breeding colony of West Indian flamingos, which numbers between 50,000 and 80,000 birds based on Bahamas National Trust counts. This represents the largest breeding colony of this species in the world. The park also contains populations of the endangered Bahamas parrot, with approximately 8,000 individuals recorded in 2014 surveys. Lake Windsor, a 12-mile-long hypersaline lake, provides the primary feeding ground for the flamingos. Morton Salt Company operates the only commercial solar salt facility in the Bahamas adjacent to the park, producing approximately 1 million tons annually since 1954.
The Andros Barrier Reef extends for 142 miles along the eastern shore of Andros, making it the third-longest barrier reef in the world after Australia's Great Barrier Reef and the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef. The reef drops from shallow waters to the edge of the Tongue of the Ocean, an oceanic trench that reaches depths exceeding 6,000 feet. Andros contains the highest concentration of blue holes in the world, with over 200 mapped inland blue holes and numerous ocean blue holes. These karst formations provide access to an extensive underwater cave system formed during lower sea levels of the Pleistocene epoch. Some inland blue holes are tidal despite being miles from the ocean, connected through the subsurface cave network.