This was the home of Joel Chandler Harris, author of Uncle Remus stories, from 1881 until 1908. The museum opened in 1913, Harris' room is almost completely untouched to this day aside from cleaning.
Atlanta's only surviving drive-in movie theater, it's been entertaining movie fans since 1949 & shows double-feature first run movies. The theater also features a flea market which is open on weekends
Originally built in 1967 as a convention center, it hosted the 1996 Summer Olympics cultural program. In 2005 President George W. Bush spoke to an invitation-only crowd here about changes in Medicare.
Founded in 1978 by Vincent Anthony, it's the nation’s largest organization dedicated to the art form of puppetry. Kermit the Frog and his creator Jim Henson cut the ceremonial ribbon at the opening.
The exhibit features cash-processing operations, where millions of dollars are counted, sorted or shredded daily. Check out the automated vault & see the robotic transports that do the heavy lifting.
The theatre opened on December 25, 1929, just two months after the stock market crash. The Fox hosted the premiere of Walt Disney's Song of the South in 1946. Disney himself introduced the picture.
Founded in 1850, it's the oldest cemetery in Atlanta. It is the final resting place of many of Atlanta's settlers, builders & most noted citizens like Bobby Jones, Margaret Mitchell & Maynard Jackson.
The magnolia tree in the lot is the only physical remainder of a great chapter in baseball history. This was the site of Ponce De Leon Park, where Hall of Famers Eddie Mathews & Luke Appling broke in.
The cylindrical panoramic painting of the Civil War Battle of Atlanta here was the largest oil painting in the world until 2004, when it was surpassed in size by a mural at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo.
Ground was broken in 1989 & on October 5, 1992, Fernbank Museum of Natural History opened to the public, becoming one of the only museums in the world to grow out of an old-growth forest.
It's the world's largest aquarium housing more than 100,000 animals of 500 different species. The aquarium was built as a gift to the city of Atlanta from Home Depot co-founder Bernard Marcus in 2001.
The Henson exhibit is great plus the museum including several audioanimatronics, The Pigs in Space and assorted rareties from around the globe Mehr erfahren.
Opened in 1976, the garden composed of a number of smaller themed gardens, including The Fuqua Orchid Center, which is home to the largest collection of species orchids on permanent display in the US.
