Georgia
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Featured Attractions
Billy Carter Gas Station Museum
Plains, Georgia
The legacy of President Jimmy Carter's colorful brother is chronicled in a replica of his service station.
The New World of Coca-Cola
Atlanta, Georgia
Corporate celebration of the popular soft drink and its carbonated spawn.
St. EOM's Pasaquan
Buena Vista, Georgia
The late Eddie Owens Martin (St. EOM)'s bizarre, pagan, future art vision, in rural Georgia
Habitat for Humanity's Slum Theme Park
Americus, Georgia
Simulated Third World slum encourages visitors to support the mission of improving houses around the world.
National Civil War Naval Museum
Columbus, Georgia
Lumbering ironclads and their steampunk technology, dredged from watery graves.
Hitler's Telephone: U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum
Fort Gordon, Georgia
...and other warlords' personal electronics at the U.S. Army Signal Corp Museum.
World's Largest Peanut
Ashburn, Georgia
The reigning king of Gooberdom watches I-75 from his brick tower.
Babyland General Hospital
Cleveland, Georgia
"Birthplace of the Cabbage Patch Kids" And they're still being born.
Crime and Punishment Museum
Ashburn, Georgia
Former hellish lockup in what appears to be an ordinary brick home.
Bruce Weiner's Microcar Museum
Madison, Georgia
The world's largest collection of the world's smallest cars.
Lunch Box Museum
Columbus, Georgia
Allen Woodall Jr. collects the classic metal lunch boxes decorated with TV and toy characters.
National Infantry Museum
Fort Benning, Georgia
Expansive chronicle of America's foot soldiers in war. Don't miss the Hitler Head Trash Can!
Georgia Guidestones
Nuberg, Georgia
"America's Stonehenge" of the South, financed by a wealthy, nameless, mysterious stranger.
Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Americus: Habitat for Humanity's Slum Theme Park
- Andersonville: National Prisoner of War Museum
- Ashburn: Crime & Punishment Museum
- Ashburn: World's Largest Peanut
- Athens: World's Only Double-barreled Cannon [tips]
- Athens: Tree That Owns Itself [tips]
- Atlanta: Cyclorama [tips]
- Atlanta: Giant Leaping Fish
- Atlanta: New World of Coca-Cola
- Atlanta: The Varsity [tips]
- Augusta: The Cursed Pillar
- Augusta: James Brown Statue
- Buena Vista: Pasaquan: St. EOM's Folk Art
- Cleveland: Cabbage Patch Doll Births
- Columbus: Grave of Inventor of Coca Cola
- Columbus: Kadie the Cow
- Columbus: National Civil War Naval Museum
- Cordele: Confederate Missile
- Cornelia: World's Largest Apple
- Cornelia: Everything Elvis [tips]
- Cumming: Gravity Hill [tips]
- Eastman: Site of Original Stuckeys [tips]
- Eatonton: Uncle Remus Museum
- Elberton: Dutchy, Yankee Reb [tips]
- Fort Benning: Calculator the Dog Monument
- Fort Benning: Hitler Head Trash Can, National Infantry Museum
- Fort Gordon: Hitler's Telephone: U.S. Army Signal Corps Museum
- Hartwell: Center of the World
- Juliette: Fried Green Tomatoes Cafe [tips]
- Leslie: Georgia Rural Telephone Museum
- Lookout Mountain: Rock City
- Lumpkin: Little Grand Canyon
- Madison: Bruce Weiner's Microcar Museum
- Marietta: Big Chicken
- McRae: Statue of Liberty
- Nuberg: Georgia Guidestones
- Plains: Billy Carter Gas Station Museum
- Plains: Jimmy Carter Peanut Statue
- Savannah: World Globe Storage Tank [tips]
- South Newport: Tiny Church [tips]
- Statesboro: Tick Museum [tips]
- Summerville: Rev. Finster's Paradise Gardens [tips]
- Waycross: Petrified Dog in a Tree [tips]
