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African American Panoramic Experience (APEX)
The museum's quarterly exhibits chronicle the history of black...
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Museums / Galleries Sweet Auburn
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Atlanta Botanical Garden
Occupying 30 acres inside Piedmont Park, the grounds contain...
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Gardens / Arboretums Midtown
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Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum
A building in Grant Park (named for a New England-born Confederate...
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Museums / Galleries Downtown
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Atlanta History Center
Life in Atlanta, the South, and the Civil War are the focus of...
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Museums / Galleries Buckhead
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Bank of America Plaza Tower
At 1,023 feet, this is the South's tallest building. The 1992...
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Architectural Sites Midtown
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Centennial Olympic Park
This 21-acre swath of green was the central venue for the 1996...
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Parks Downtown
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Center for Puppetry Arts
The largest puppetry organization in the country houses a museum...
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Museums / Galleries Midtown
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CNN Center
The home of Cable News Network occupies all 14 floors of this...
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Film / TV Studios Downtown
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Ebenezer Baptist Church
A Gothic Revival-style building completed in 1922, the church...
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Religious Sites Sweet Auburn
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Fernbank Museum of Natural History
One of the largest natural-history museums south of the Smithsonian...
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Museums / Galleries Atlanta
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Fox Theatre
One of a dwindling number of vintage movie palaces in the nation...
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Arts / Performance Venues Midtown
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Georgia Aquarium
With 8 million gallons of water, this wildly popular attraction...
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Zoos / Aquariums Downtown
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High Museum of Art
This museum's permanent collection includes 19th- and 20-century...
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Museums / Galleries Midtown
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Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta
In this colorful and joyfully noisy museum geared to children...
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Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum
This complex occupies the site where Union General William T...
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Museums / Galleries Atlanta
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Margaret Mitchell House & Museum
While she wrote her masterpiece, the author of Gone With the...
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Museums / Galleries Midtown
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Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic District occupies...
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Museums / Galleries Sweet Auburn
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Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and Birth Home
The modest Queen Anne-style residence is where Martin Luther...
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Museums / Galleries Sweet Auburn
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Michael C. Carlos Museum
Housing a permanent collection of more than 16,000 objects, this...
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Museums / Galleries Atlanta
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World of Coca-Cola
Read all about it: New Coke replaces original Coke! No, no—we're...
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Zoo Atlanta
This zoo has nearly 1,000 animals and 250 species living in naturalistic...
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Zoos / Aquariums Downtown
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