Sights & Attractions in Atlanta

Top Attractions

Name	Category	Location

African American Panoramic Experience (APEX) The museum's quarterly exhibits chronicle the history of black...	Museums / Galleries	Sweet Auburn

Atlanta Botanical Garden Occupying 30 acres inside Piedmont Park, the grounds contain...	Museums / Galleries, Gardens / Arboretums	Midtown and Westside

Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum A building in Grant Park (named for a New England-born Confederate...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown

Bank of America Plaza Tower At 1,023 feet, this is the South's tallest building. The 1992...	Architectural Sites	Midtown and Westside

Centennial Olympic Park This 21-acre swath of green was the central venue for the 1996...	Parks	Downtown


Center for Puppetry Arts The largest puppetry organization in the country houses a museum...	Museums / Galleries, Arts / Performance Venues	Midtown and Westside

CNN Center The home of Cable News Network occupies all 14 floors of this...	Film / TV Studios	Downtown

Ebenezer Baptist Church A Gothic Revival-style building completed in 1922, the church...	Museums / Galleries, Religious Sites	Sweet Auburn

Fernbank Museum of Natural History One of the largest natural-history museums south of the Smithsonian...	Museums / Galleries	Atlanta

Fox Theatre One of a dwindling number of vintage movie palaces in the nation...	Arts / Performance Venues, Architectural Sites	Midtown and Westside

Georgia Aquarium With more than 10 million gallons of water, this wildly popular...	Zoos / Aquariums	Downtown

High Museum of Art This museum's permanent collection includes 19th- and 20-century...	Museums / Galleries	Midtown and Westside

Imagine It! The Children's Museum of Atlanta In this colorful and joyfully noisy museum for children ages...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library & Museum This complex occupies the site where Union General William T...	Museums / Galleries	Atlanta

Margaret Mitchell House and Museum While she wrote her masterpiece, the author of Gone With the...	Museums / Galleries, Architectural Sites	Midtown and Westside

Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change The Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic District occupies...	Museums / Galleries	Sweet Auburn

Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site and Birth Home The modest Queen Anne-style residence is where Martin Luther...	Museums / Galleries	Sweet Auburn

Michael C. Carlos Museum Housing a permanent collection of more than 16,000 objects, this...	Museums / Galleries	Atlanta

World of Coca-Cola This shrine to the brown soda's image, products, and marketing...	Museums / Galleries	Downtown

Zoo Atlanta This zoo has more than 1,500 animals and 200 species from around...	Zoos / Aquariums	Downtown
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