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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Georgia

205 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Georgia

Updated August 20, 2024

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  1. Athens
  2. Atlanta
  3. Blairsville
  4. Cartersville
  5. Clayton
  6. Columbus
  7. Decatur
  8. Elberton
  9. Helen
  10. Hinesville
  11. Jekyll Island
  12. Macon
  13. Marietta
  14. Rome
  15. Saint Simons Island
  16. Savannah
  17. Senoia
  18. St. Marys
  19. Summerville
  20. Thomasville

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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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Museums 26
Cemeteries 15
Nature 14
Gravestones 13
Outsider Art 13
Abandoned 13
Graves 12
Architecture 11

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Stories About Georgia

Vidalia onions must be planted, harvested, and cured by hand.

Looking for the Perfect Onion

From Georgia to New Zealand, the quest for a sweet, painless onion continues.
by Mark Kurlansky

Podcast: Grave Bells

We learn about a peculiar belief that was once widespread: the hope to be saved by a bell.
by The Podcast Team
If not for the Yazoo Land Scandal, Greater Georgia might have encompassed most or all of the current states of Mississippi and Alabama.

The Little-Known Land Fraud That Changed American History

Without this now-obscure land investment scheme, the Yazoo Land Affair, Georgia might have been a "super state."
by Frank Jacobs, Big Think
There is a Future, 2020

Reclaiming Georgia's Stone Mountain Through Haunting Landscape Images

Photographer Sheila Pree Bright wanted to find a new way of seeing the site and its connection to centuries of racism.
by Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing
Lucinda Bunnen (American, born 1930), Nellie Mae Rowe’s House, 1971, chromogenic print, collection of the artist.

Podcast: Nellie Mae Rowe's Playhouse

Inside an artistic, whimsical playhouse.
by The Podcast Team
An Ossabaw hog in captivity in Savannah.

Saving the Hogs of Ossabaw Island

An eccentric heiress, a daring mission, and the fight for North America’s most unusual pig.
by Diana Hubbell

Podcast: Lake Lanier

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
by The Podcast Team
Bessie Jones (with tambourine) felt a “call to teach" and to share the rich Black musical tradition she grew up with.

The Woman Who Made Black Traditions a Vital Part of Music Education

Singer Bessie Jones is the reason so many American children know the folk songs of African and Gullah cultures.
by Sara Mellas

Lists Featuring Georgia

Red Seabeach
The otherworldly landscape of Padar Island.
Black Sand Beach

10 Unique Beaches From Around the World

From bright red grass to stranded shipwrecks, these beaches are anything but ordinary.

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Including Driftwood Beach, Red Beach , and Padar Island

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