#1 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Underground Atlanta
Atlanta GA
~0.14 miles from Atlanta city center
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#2 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Downtown (Neighborhood)
Atlanta GA
~0.14 miles from Atlanta city center
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Downtown Atlanta is the first and largest of the three financial districts in the city of Atlanta. Downtown Atlanta is the location of many corporate or regional headquarters, city, county, state and federal government facilities, sporting facilities, and is the central tourist attraction of the city. The largest financial district also contains striking architecture that dates back to the 1800s while maintaining a modern look and feel. Finally, the area is also the location of the hub of MARTA rail lines and where the major Interstates meet each other with two of them forming the Downtown Connector.
As defined by the Central Atlanta Progress (CAP) organization, the area measures approximately four square miles, and had 23,300 residents as of 2006. This area is bound by North Avenue to the north, Boulevard to the east, Interstate 20 to the south, and Northside Drive to the west. This definition of Downtown Atlanta includes central areas like Five Points, the Hotel District and Fairlie-Poplar and outlying inner-city neighborhoods such as SoNo, and Castleberry Hill.
Part of the Downtown Atlanta skyline from the Downtown Connector.
The Atlanta Downtown Improvement District (ADID) organization, though, defines a much smaller downtown area measuring just one and two tenths square miles. This area is roughly bound by North Avenue to the north, Piedmont Avenue and then Downtown Connector to the east, Martin Luther King Junior Drive, Courtland Street, and Edgewood Avenue to the south, and the railroad tracks to the west. This area only includes the core central business district neighborhoods of Fairlie-Poplar, Five Points, the Hotel District, Centennial Hills, and as of May 2007, the Railroad District.
The Downtown area is one of the most active business districts in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area. The daytime population swells to over 140,000 as of 2006. Downtown brings in more than 12 million visitors annually. Finally, Downtown boasts more than 12,000 hotel rooms, 185 restaurants/eateries and 30 bars/nightclubs.
Downtown Atlanta, like other central business districts in the U.S., is undergoing a transformation that includes building condos and lofts, uninhabited buildings being renovated and/or demolished, and the influx of people and businesses coming to the area.
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#3 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Rialto Center for the Performing Arts
Atlanta GA
~0.16 miles from Atlanta city center
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#4 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
The Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
Atlanta GA
~0.27 miles from Atlanta city center
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#5 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
CNN Studios Center
Atlanta GA
~0.33 miles from Atlanta city center
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Visitors begin their tour at CNN Center with a ride on the world’s largest free-standing escalator, which once moved visitors to a human pinball machine ride in an indoor amusement park, The World of Sid and Marty Krofft. The towering escalator now takes visitors up 200 feet to a 50-foot globe. Inside, they view CNN footage at interactive kiosks.
From the walkway used on the tour, visitors look down to the floor of the atrium, which contained the amusement park’s indoor ice rink. Now the portion of the atrium is used for a food court and has floor tiles in the outline of a world map. Brass disks are inserted in locations where CNN has stations.
In the Control Room theater, the tour guide shows a video replicating the fast pace of the TV news world and takes questions from visitors.
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#6 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
APEX Museum (African American Panoramic Experience)
Atlanta GA
~0.38 miles from Atlanta city center
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#7 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Centennial Olympic Park
Atlanta GA
~0.39 miles from Atlanta city center
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Centennial Olympic Park is a 21 acre (85,000 m²) public park located in downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA that is owned and operated by the Georgia World Congress Center Authority. The park was built by the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) as part of the infrastructure improvements for the Centennial 1996 Summer Olympics. ACOG's chief executive, Billy Payne, conceived it as both a central gathering location for visitors and spectators during the Olympics and as a lasting legacy for the city.
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#8 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Georgia State Capitol
Atlanta GA
~0.42 miles from Atlanta city center
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#9 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
AmericasMart
240 Peachtree Street NW Atlanta GA - 404.220.3000
~0.45 miles from Atlanta city center
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AmericasMart-Atlanta is the apparel mart, gift market, home accents, home furnishings and area rugs showcase for retail buyers and wholesalers.
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#10 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Georgia State University
Atlanta GA
~0.46 miles from Atlanta city center
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#11 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta GA
~0.51 miles from Atlanta city center
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The Georgia World Congress Center is the major convention center in Atlanta. It is the fourth-largest convention center in the United States at 1.4 million square feet and hosts more than a million visitors each year. http://www.georgiaworldcongresscenter.us
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#12 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
The Children's Museum of Atlanta
Atlanta GA
~0.53 miles from Atlanta city center
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#13 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Philips Arena - Atlanta Hawks - Atlanta Thrashers
Atlanta GA
~0.54 miles from Atlanta city center
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#14 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Atlanta International Museum of Art and Design
Atlanta GA
~0.57 miles from Atlanta city center
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#15 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Georgia Aquarium
225 Baker Street Atlanta GA - 404-581-4000
~0.61 miles from Atlanta city center
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The World’s Largest and Most Engaging Aquarium. http://www.georgiaaquarium.org
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#16 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Castleberry Hill (Neighborhood)
Atlanta GA
~0.76 miles from Atlanta city center
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Castleberry Hill is a neighborhood in central Atlanta, Georgia located adjacent to and southwest of the Central Business District. It is a federally recognized historic district since 1985 and became a City of Atlanta Landmark District in 2006. A designated 'landmark' district' helps preserve the neighborhood from overzealous developers.[citation needed]
It also contains the Castleberry Hill Art District. In recent years, the area has experienced an influx of residents and new businesses. The area near the intersection of Peters Street and Walker Street is home to a growing number of small art galleries, restaurants, and loft residences. The area also offers pristine local shopping, including a high-end streetwear boutique called Urban Fusion. Other notable area eateries include Slice, a popular local pizza parlor; Wasabi, a recently-opened sushi bar; and No Mas Cantina, a spacious Mexican-themed restaurant, bar and fine home furnishings. Castleberry Hill residents gather at local watering hole Elliott Street to enjoy sandwiches and drinks. The crowd is normally a mix of residents, downtown workers, and attendees of downtown events (Philips Arena and the Georgia Dome are located nearby.)
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#17 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Georgia Dome - Atlanta Falcons
Atlanta GA
~0.77 miles from Atlanta city center
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#18 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Ebenezer Baptist Church of Atlanta
Atlanta GA
~0.88 miles from Atlanta city center
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This sanctuary became a spiritual haven for civil rights activists when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served as senior pastor in the 1960s. On the self-guided audio tour, King's inspirational sermons will take visitors back in time, while the new Horizon Sanctuary across the street is home to the present day congregation, highlighted by its traditional tabernacle choir.
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#19 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Martin Luther King Jr. Center
Atlanta GA
~0.94 miles from Atlanta city center
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#20 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
SciTrek
Atlanta GA
~0.94 miles from Atlanta city center
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#21 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Herndon Home
Atlanta GA
~1.00 miles from Atlanta city center
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#22 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Atlanta Civic Center
Atlanta GA
~1.00 miles from Atlanta city center
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#23 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Centennial Place (Neighborhood)
Atlanta GA
~1.01 miles from Atlanta city center
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Centennial Park (Nashville) is a large urban park located approximately two miles (three km) west of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, across West End Avenue (U.S. Highway 70S) from the campus of Vanderbilt University and adjacent to the headquarters campus of the Hospital Corporation of America.
Lake Watauga is a small artificial lake in Centennial Park
The 132-acre (0.53 km2) park was originally farmland that had belonged to Anne Robertson Johnson Cockrill. She was the first teacher in the state and sister of General James Robertson (commonly referred to as the "Father of Middle Tennessee". She and her family came from Wake Co, NC to Fort Nashboro (now Nashville) in the Donelson Flotilla, led by Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel's father, John Donelson. They stopped for the winter in 1776 when the river iced over and, while the men were out hunting, Indians attacked Fort Wautoga. Anne, although wounded, led the women in a bucket brigade of boiling wash water to fend off Dragging Canoe and other Chickamauguan Indians attempting to set fire to the fort, ultimately driving off the Indians and saving the fort and families. For her valiance, she was given a land grant for the land which was turned into the state fairgrounds after the Civil War. From 1884 to 1895, the site served as a racetrack and was known as West Side Park. In 1897, it was the site of the Tennessee Centennial and International Exposition and was renamed Centennial Park. After the exposition ended, most of the building and exhibits (with the exception of a full-scale model of the Athenian Parthenon) were dismantled, leaving in its place a landscaped open area with a small artificial lake (named "Lake Watauga" after the region in western North Carolina where many of Nashville's early settlers moved from), sunken gardens, and a bandshell. This area became an important recreation site for white Nashvillians; "Jim Crow" laws forbade its use by African Americans until the 1960s, which resulted in disagreements which led to the closure of the park's swimming pool because it was filled in with dirt in order to prevent it from being integrated. The filled in pool was subsequently reopened as an arts center.
The Parthenon replica, built largely out of plaster as a temporary exhibit building (the Nashville pavilion of the Centennial Exposition) began to fall into disrepair and was proposed for demolition on several occasions, but public sentiment in favor of this symbol of Nashville as the "Athens of the South" precluded this. Finally, in the 1920s it was agreed to replace the temporary plaster building with a permanent, concrete and steel replacement which remains today and has been refurbished on several occasions. It functions today primarily as an art gallery. It contains a statue of Pallas Athena, said to be the largest indoor sculpture in the Western world, which was commissioned by the city and realized by the renowned Nashville sculptor Alan LeQuire. Owing to the completeness and the multiple color surface painting (called polychrome), this replica is arguably closer to what the Athenians saw than are the current ruins in Athens.
From 1954 to 1967, the Parthenon was the backdrop for an enormous nativity scene sponsored by the now-defunct Harveys department store. The scene was approximately 280 feet (85 m) long, 75 feet (23 m) deep and was flooded with colorful lights. However, the Italian firm from which the Harvey family had purchased it went out of business soon afterwards. Hence, no authorized repairs, technical support, or even reliable guides to proper maintenance of the fixtures were available. By 1968, the fixtures were in such serious disrepair the nativity could not be exhibited. Financial responsibility became too much for Harvey’s and the city of Nashville and the scene was sold to a Cincinnati shopping center. According to the Nashville Banner, the nativity scene was shown only two Christmas seasons in Cincinnati before it collapsed and was discarded.
Centennial Park is the site of the climactic scene in Robert Altman's Nashville, a picture beloved of many film critics. The parthenon is used in a political rally and assassination sequence at the very end of the film.
There were many mature shade trees in the park until the 1998 Nashville tornado outbreak; most of them were damaged or destroyed in the storm. The park was also the site of the storm's sole fatality, a Vanderbilt ROTC cadet. Since then, the park and other areas of outdoor gathering in the Nashville area have been equipped with storm-warning sirens.
On November 11, 2005, Centennial Park became Nashville's first wireless internet park by offering free Wi-Fi internet access to park patrons.
The park also contains a recreation center and is the home of the administrative offices of the city's Department of Parks and Recreation.
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#24 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Oakland Cemetery
Atlanta GA
~1.11 miles from Atlanta city center
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Morris Brown College
643 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Atlanta GA - 404-739-1000
~1.15 miles from Atlanta city center
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http://www.morrisbrown.edu
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#26 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Georgia Tech University
Atlanta GA
~1.18 miles from Atlanta city center
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#27 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Fox Theatre
Atlanta GA
~1.25 miles from Atlanta city center
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#28 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Turner Field - Atlanta Braves
Atlanta
~1.29 miles from Atlanta city center
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#29 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
Cabbagetown (Neighborhood)
Atlanta GA
~1.36 miles from Atlanta city center
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Cabbagetown is a neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia (USA) located south of Inman Park, east of Oakland Cemetery, north of Grant Park and west of Reynoldstown. It includes Cabbagetown District, a historic district listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
The Atlanta Rolling Mill was destroyed after the Battle of Atlanta and on its site the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill began operations in 1881 and Cabbagetown was built as the surrounding mill town and was the first textile processing mills built in the south. Its primary product was cotton bags for packaging agricultural products. Built during a period when many industries were relocating to the post-Reconstruction South in search of cheap labor, it opened shortly following the International Cotton Exposition, which was held in Atlanta in an effort to attract investment to the region. The mill was owned and operated by Jacob Elsas, a German Jewish immigrant. Its work force consisted of poor whites recruited from the Appalachian region of north Georgia. Elsas built a small community of one and two-story shotgun houses and cottage-style houses surrounding the mill. Like most mill towns, the streets are extremely narrow with short blocks and lots of intersections. At its height the mill employed 2,600 people. A protracted strike in 1914-15 failed to unionize the factory's workforce. For over half a century Cabbagetown remained home to a tight-knit, homogenous, and semi-isolated community of people whose lives were anchored by the mill, until it closed in 1977. Afterwards, the neighborhood went into a steep decline which didn't end until Atlanta's intown renaissance of the mid-1990s. The mill itself was named to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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#30 of 30 Things To Do in Atlanta
World of Coca-Cola
121 Baker Street Atlanta GA
~1.52 miles from Atlanta city center
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It's the only place where you can explore the complete story—past, present, and future—of the world's best-known brand! The new and expanded World has something for everyone!
Thrilling 4-D Theater
World's largest collection of Coke memorabilia
Fully functioning bottling line that produces commemorative 8-ounce bottles of Coca-Cola®
Tasting experience with over 70 different products to sample
Pop Culture Gallery featuring works by artists such as Andy Warhol and Steve Penley
World-famous Coca-Cola® Polar Bear
And so much more! http://www.woccatlanta.com/
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