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Columbus, Georgia

Lunch Box Museum

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.

Columbus, Georgia

Coca Cola Inventor's Grave

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

Columbus, Georgia

Circus Train Wreck Victims Memorial

Shaped like a big top tent, this memorial honors the victims of a terrible train wreck.

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The Drive-Thru Museum

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

13 miles from Columbus

The Museum Of Wonder

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

14 miles from Columbus

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Pasaquan

This folk art compound was built by a fortune teller on the advice of three people from the future.

24 miles from Columbus

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