Start with the catalogue of ships (Iliad 2:494-759). Many of the places which are listed there still exist (at least as ruins) and can be visited). I will point just to the most remarkable ones (besides Troy which you already mentioned):
Mycenae, Agamemnon’s city. Mycenae is an excavated city of the bronze age, with a wonderful museum. It still looks like it looked in Agamemnon’s times.
Tiryns, another well-preserved bronze age city. Tiryns belonged to Argolis where Diomedes was king, one the the Achaian’s best fighters.
Near Pylos, you find the palace of king Nestor. There is his throne room, with the foundations of his throne, of a large circular fireplace and of a gully for libations.
And now, the best of all: there is the bathtub where Telemachos bathed, as written in the Odyssey:
In the museum of Pylos you find a helmet of boar tusks, like Odysseus wore it:
If you ever wondered how Helen might have looked - maybe like this lady from the archeological museum of Mycenae:
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