Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park (GA, TN)
Cumberland Island National Seashore
Fort Frederica National Monument
Fort Pulaski National Monument
Jimmy Carter National Historic Site
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Martin Luther King Jr National Historical Park
Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Obscura
Atlanta
Doll’s Head Trail, Atlanta – Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.
CDC Museum, Atlanta – Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
Junkman’s Daughter, Atlanta – This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.
Krog Street Tunnel, Atlanta – An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.
Westview Cemetery, Atlanta – The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir Atlanta, Lilburn – This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.
The Dwarf Castle, Alpharetta – A man’s home is his castle.
Cascade Springs Nature Preserve, Atlanta – Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers’ blood.
54 Columns, Atlanta – Atlanta’s strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.
Center for Puppetry Arts, Atlanta – The largest puppetry museum in the USA houses the world’s most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.
Hindu Temple of Atlanta, Riverdale – A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.
Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta – Civil War soldiers, captains of industry, and paupers all interred on historic grounds.
Mount Olive Cemetery, Atlanta – This small cemetery is all that remains of Atlanta’s first Black communities.
Gravity Research Foundation Monument, Atlanta – This stone is a marker of one millionaire’s personal vendetta against gravity.
Battle of Atlanta Cyclorama, Atlanta History Center, Atlanta – The Battle of Atlanta in 360 degrees, featuring a corpse that bears a striking resemblance to Clark Gable.
Arabia Mountain, Lithonia – the Stone Mountain twin
Robert C. Williams Paper Museum, Atlanta – One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.
The 747 Experience, Atlanta – One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.
The Elvis Shrine Vault, Atlanta – An old bank vault in Atlanta, is now the eternal shrine of Elvis Presley.
Folk Art Park, Atlanta – A psychedelic tribute to one of Georgia’s most unique artistic visionaries, out of place and time in the heart of Atlanta.
Wat Lao Buddha Phothisaram, Conley – An ornate Buddhist temple located in an Atlanta suburb, built by and for the Laotian community.
‘Autoeater’, Atlanta
Georgia Guidestones, Elberton – A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into “an Age of Reason.”
Savannah
The Paris Market, Savannah – This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world’s bazaars.
Colonial Park Cemetery, Savannah – One of Savannah’s oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman’s Union Army.
Rousakis Plaza Echo Square, Savannah – “X” marks the spot of an echo chamber in the middle of a plaza.
A Century of Hats, Savannah – Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies’ lids.
American Prohibition Museum, Savannah – Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.
Pin Point Heritage Museum, Savannah – A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.
Graveface Museum, Savannah – Hidden amid the old-world charm of Savannah is a museum dedicated to the world of oddities and criminal history.
The Bonaventure Jogger, Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah – An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.
Grave of Gracie Watson, Savannah
Toccoa River Swinging Bridge, Suches – They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it’s the bouncing you have to watch out for.
Providence Canyon State Outdoor Recreation Area, Lumpkin – Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.
“Eye of God” rapid, Chattooga River, Clayton – A curious whirlpool formation supposedly capable of entangling or engulfing branches, tree trunks, or whole rafts full of hapless tourists.
The New Manchester Manufacturing Company, Lithia Springs – The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.
Pasaquan, Buena Vista – This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.
Expedition Bigfoot (The Sasquatch Museum), Cherry Log – Home of an impressive collection dedicated to the mythical beast.
Etowah Indian Mounds, Cartersville – These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.
Lunch Box Museum, Columbus – A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.
Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens, Summerville – This “Plant Farm Museum” is home to the divinely inspired and visionary outsider artwork of Reverend Howard Finster.
Jimmy Carter Smiling Peanut, Plains – This 13-foot smiling peanut in Georgia helped Jimmy Carter win the 1976 presidential election.
Rock Garden Calhoun, Calhoun – Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.
Monkey Massacre Memorial, Johns Creek – The statues commemorate the legendary mass killing of escaped circus monkeys.
Crowley Mausoleum, Decatur – Developers built a Walmart around one family’s plot and constructed a mausoleum in the parking lot.
St. Marys Submarine Museum, St. Marys – Interactive modern and vintage submarine equipment, World War II relics, and submarine attire.
Goats On The Roof, Tiger – Happiness is a goat on a roof.
Brasstown Bald, Blairsville – Georgia’s highest point was given its strange name thanks to a simple translation error.
Big Chicken, Marietta – Giant chicken
Fort Frederica, Saint Simons Island – The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.
Titan I Missile, Cordele – A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.
Giant Peanut Monument, Ashburn – Sometimes there’s only one way to prove how proud you are of something so small – build a monument to tell the world.
The Big House (Allman Brothers Museum), Macon – The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre’s favorite families.
SamG Land, Clarkesville – A wonderland of folk art including the World’s Largest Grit.
Computer Museum of America, Roswell – A vast collection of rare, historical, and vintage supercomputers.
Vidalia Onion Museum, Vidalia – A sweet tribute to Georgia’s official state vegetable
Jefferson Davis Capture Site, Fitzgerald – The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust… that leaves that part out.
Georgia Rural Telephone Museum, Leslie – Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.
Elberton Granite Museum, Elberton – Home of Dutchy, an exhumed Confederate statue that was once torn down by an angry mob for looking stupid.
Cow Tower, Conyers – A herd of plastic cows hangs out under this transmission tower in rural Georgia
Memory Park Christ Chapel, Townsend – Dubbed the “smallest church in America,” this tiny sanctuary was a local grocer’s dream come true.
Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village & Discovery Center, Americus
