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Doll's Head Trail

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

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Here is one of the solitary confinement rooms. NOTE: the entire second floor has been burned down since these photos were taken. Little of this area remains.

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Atlanta Prison Farm

The beauty of urban decay, hiding some dark secrets.

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storefront, front view

Atlanta, Georgia

Junkman's Daughter

A purveyor of unusual items located in the center of Atlanta, Georgia.

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Your body goes in here (yes, yours)

Atlanta, Georgia

CDC Museum

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

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The Krog Street Tunnel

An underground magnet for ever-changing street art.

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Ribbon cutting at Door #6

Atlanta, Georgia

Tiny Doors ATL

Scattered around Atlanta are tiny little doors with great big charm.

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Just before the door was shut on the Crypt of Civilization.

Atlanta, Georgia

Crypt of Civilization

The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.

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Cascade Springs Nature Preserve

Healing Springs that once ran red with soldiers' blood.

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Before there was the CNN Center, there was The World of Sid and Marty Krofft.

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