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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Atlanta

64 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Atlanta, Georgia

Updated February 7, 2024

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On Doll’s Head Trail

Atlanta, Georgia

Doll's Head Trail

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Atlanta, Georgia

Junkman's Daughter

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.
Your body goes in here (yes, yours)

Atlanta, Georgia

CDC Museum

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
East side of “The Abbey” mausoleum at Westview Cemetery.

Atlanta, Georgia

Westview Cemetery

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Atlanta, Georgia

Krog Street Tunnel

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta Glass Treehouse

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.
Dining room at Trader Vic’s Atlanta.

Atlanta, Georgia

Trader Vic's

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.
Ribbon cutting at Door #6

Atlanta, Georgia

Tiny Doors ATL

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.
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Dining room at Trader Vic’s Atlanta.

Atlanta, Georgia

Trader Vic's

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.
Come on in!

Atlanta, Georgia

Sister Louisa's Church of the Living Room & Ping Pong Emporium

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.
Entrance to the Coca-Cola vault.

Atlanta, Georgia

Coca-Cola Secret Formula Vault

One of corporate America's best-kept secrets is also one of the most publicly displayed.

Atlanta, Georgia

The Consulate

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.
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7 Stone Spectacles in Georgia

At the heart of every peach rests its stone center, or pit. So perhaps it’s fitting that Georgia, the Peach State, holds a wealth of stone-based treasures of a different sort. In Walker County, a labyrinth of limestone passages leads to the deepest cave drop in the continental United States. In Calhoun, a rock garden of spectacular sculptures hides behind a church. And in Savannah, two gravestones appear on an airport runway. Whether carved by hand or nature, these stone wonders truly rock.

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Stories About Atlanta

Podcast: For Keeps Books

The place to find rare and classic books by Black authors.
by The Podcast Team
April 19, 2023

Podcast: The Wren’s Nest

Atlanta’s oldest house museum is dedicated to preserving Black American oral traditions.
by The Podcast Team
November 8, 2022

Podcast: The Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
Sponsored by Discover Atlanta

Podcast: Tiny Doors ATL

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
by The Podcast Team
June 27, 2022

Podcast: Centers for Disease Control Museum

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
by The Podcast Team
December 2, 2021
The roots of a tulip poplar, a common hardwood tree with medicinal properties.

How Civil War Plant Remedies Could Improve Modern Medicine

An old medical botanical guide offers new avenues for research.
by Evan Nicole Brown
May 23, 2019
This bottle sold for more than $100,000.

See the Lone Survivor of Coca-Cola's Prototype Bottles

It had eluded even the most dedicated bottle treasure hunters.
by Matthew Taub
April 5, 2023
Supporters of the campaign to save 152 Nassau have been posting little paper hearts on the front of the building.

Inside the Fight to Save an Overlooked Piece of Country Music History

A nondescript building in Atlanta, considered a birthplace of country music, may soon be demolished—and become a Margaritaville.
by Matt Smith
February 5, 2019

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