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   Georgia Aquarium

   Opened in 2005 with a $250 million gift from Home Depot's Bernard Marcus, it was the largest aquarium in the world until 2012 and remains the largest in the United States, holding over 11 million gallons of water. Whale sharks, belugas and manta rays fill its central tank.

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   High Museum of Art

   The largest art museum in the southeastern United States, whose 1983 Richard Meier building in white porcelain panels was joined in 2005 by three more by Renzo Piano. Its African art, folk art and photography collections are the strongest parts, and the Piano wing takes travelling exhibitions.

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   World of Coca-Cola

   A museum of the Coca-Cola Company, moved to its present building beside the aquarium in 2007, with a working bottling line, the vault holding the formula, and a tasting room of about a hundred drinks from around the world. The formula is not actually shown.

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   Jimmy Carter Library and Museum

   The presidential library of Jimmy Carter, opened in 1986, holding his papers and a full-scale replica of the Oval Office as he used it. His 2002 Nobel Peace Prize is displayed; the Carter Center beside it still runs election monitoring and disease eradication programmes.

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   Zoo Atlanta

   A zoo in Grant Park founded in 1889, whose collection began with a travelling circus that went bankrupt in the city. It keeps one of the largest gorilla groups in North America and held giant pandas from 1999 to 2024, when they returned to China.

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   Centennial Olympic Park

   An 8.9-hectare park built for the 1996 Olympics on cleared downtown blocks, with a fountain in the shape of the Olympic rings. A pipe bomb killed one person and injured 111 here on 27 July 1996; the aquarium, the Coca-Cola museum and the civil rights centre now surround it.

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   Buckhead

   The uptown commercial and residential district taking up roughly the northern fifth of Atlanta, of shopping malls, towers and the largest concentration of wealth in the region. The Atlanta History Center and the Swan House of 1928 are in it.

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   Six Flags Over Georgia

   A 117-hectare amusement park at Mableton west of Atlanta, opened in 1967 and named for the six flags that have flown over Georgia. It holds twelve roller coasters, including one of the last surviving Great American Scream Machine-era wooden rides.

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   Cathedral of Christ the King

   The Catholic cathedral of Atlanta, in Buckhead, built in 1939 on a site the Ku Klux Klan had used as its national headquarters until the archdiocese bought it — a detail the parish records without embarrassment. It is one of the largest Catholic congregations in the United States.

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    Ebenezer Baptist Church

    A Baptist church on Auburn Avenue where Martin Luther King's grandfather, father and King himself all preached, and where his funeral was held in 1968. The 1922 Heritage Sanctuary is part of the national historical park; the congregation moved across the street in 1999.

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   Superman: Ultimate Flight

   A flying coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, opened in 2002, on which riders hang face-down beneath the track. Two other Six Flags parks run rides of the same name; this was the second of the three to open.

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   Piedmont Park

   A 76-hectare park a kilometre and a half northeast of downtown, laid out on a former racetrack and fairground, and the site of the 1895 Cotton States Exposition where Booker T. Washington gave his Atlanta Compromise speech. It is the city's main festival ground.

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   The Tabernacle

   A concert hall in downtown Atlanta that opened as a Baptist church in 1911 and became a music venue in 1996, when it was a House of Blues for the Olympics. It holds about 2,600 people and the balconies are the original church galleries.

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   English Avenue and Vine City

   Two adjoining neighbourhoods west of downtown that form one planning unit, and once housed a substantial part of Black Atlanta's professional class. Martin Luther King lived on Sunset Avenue in Vine City; both areas have been the focus of long-running redevelopment disputes.

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   Atlanta Cyclorama & Civil War Museum

   A Civil War museum in Grant Park built around the Atlanta Cyclorama, a cylindrical panorama of the Battle of Atlanta painted in 1886 and 1,255 square metres in area. The painting was moved to the Atlanta History Center in 2017 and restored there.

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   Fernbank Museum of Natural History

   A natural history museum in Druid Hills, in a Graham Gund building beside a 26-hectare stand of old-growth forest. A 37-metre Argentinosaurus and a Giganotosaurus stand in the atrium, and the forest trail behind it is the reason the museum is where it is.

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   Goliath

   A Bolliger and Mabillard hypercoaster at Six Flags Over Georgia, opened on 1 April 2006, sixty-one metres high with a top speed of about 110 kilometres an hour. It replaced an earlier ride of the same name at another park.

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   East Atlanta

   A neighbourhood on the east side of Atlanta whose commercial strip is known as East Atlanta Village, of bars, record shops and small restaurants. It gentrified through the 2000s and gave its name to a strand of Atlanta rap.

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   Atlanta Botanical Garden

   A twelve-hectare garden beside Piedmont Park, opened in 1976, with an orchid centre holding one of the largest collections in the United States and a canopy walk 180 metres long through the treetops. Its winter light installation now draws more visitors than the summer.

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    Inman Park

    A neighbourhood east of downtown and Atlanta's first planned suburb, laid out in 1889 along the city's first electric streetcar line and named after the merchant Samuel Inman. Its Victorian houses were saved from a freeway in the 1970s and it holds a festival each April.

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