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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Georgia

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

Updated May 6, 2025

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The Superstructure in the backyard resembles the entrance to a cathedral.
Decatur
Jekyll Island
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  11. Jekyll Island
  12. Macon
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Unusual Attractions in Georgia

On Doll’s Head Trail

Atlanta, Georgia

Doll's Head Trail

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

Atlanta, Georgia

Junkman's Daughter

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.
Your body goes in here (yes, yours)

Atlanta, Georgia

CDC Museum

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.
Cafe with horned ruminant

Savannah, Georgia

The Paris Market

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.
The Rainbow Hall

Lookout Mountain, Georgia

Rock City

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
East side of “The Abbey” mausoleum at Westview Cemetery.

Atlanta, Georgia

Westview Cemetery

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

Milledgeville, Georgia

Central State Hospital

One of the largest-ever mental hospitals now sits abandoned, surrounded by 25,000 unmarked graves.
The Swinging Bridge

Suches, Georgia

Toccoa River Swinging Bridge

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.
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Cool Places to Eat & Drink in Georgia

Dining room at Trader Vic’s Atlanta.

Atlanta, Georgia

Trader Vic's

Mai Tais and Navy Grog served up in one of the original tiki bars.

Savannah, Georgia

The Pirates' House

This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."
A Carry Nation figure, with hatchet.

Savannah, Georgia

American Prohibition Museum

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

Columbus, Georgia

Lunch Box Museum

A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.
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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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Explore Georgia

Museums 28
Nature 15
Cemeteries 15
Outsider Art 14
Gravestones 13
Abandoned 13
Architecture 12
Graves 12
History 12
Monuments 11
Plants 11
Ruins 11
Unique Restaurants & Bars 3

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Recent Georgia Activity

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Stories About Georgia

Who Were the Mysterious Moon-Eyed People of Appalachia?

Tales of strange, nocturnal people haunt the region—and so do theories about who they were, from a lost Welsh "tribe" to aliens.
by Hadley Meares
October 22, 2024
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
November 7, 2023

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
October 5, 2023
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
August 25, 2023
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
April 21, 2023
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
February 27, 2023
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
January 10, 2023

Podcast: Lake Lanier

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
by The Podcast Team
July 19, 2022

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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