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The Ocean Voyager gallery at the Georgia Aquarium is home to whale sharks and manta rays, Atlanta, Georgia

Martin Luther King Jr. was baptized at Ebenezer Baptist Church and later served as co-pastor with his father, Atlanta, Georgia

The Eastside Trail is the busiest stretch of the BeltLine, a trail built on a former railway corridor, Atlanta, Georgia

Ponce City Market occupies a former Sears catalog building that was used by the company from 1926 to 1987, Atlanta, Georgia

About Atlanta

Atlanta began as a railroad junction, was burned during the Civil War, and rebuilt itself into the commercial capital of the Southeast. It is also central to the story of the civil rights movement as the hometown of Martin Luther King Jr., and its sprawl of neighborhoods sits under a famously thick tree canopy.

The park built for the 1996 Olympics is now ringed by some of the city's biggest draws, from an enormous aquarium and a museum devoted to the world's best-known soda to a powerful civil and human rights center and a hall of fame for college football. A short ride east, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park preserves his birth home and Ebenezer Baptist Church along Auburn Avenue, close to the stalls of Sweet Auburn Curb Market. The BeltLine Eastside Trail, a rail corridor turned walking path, links Krog Street Market with Ponce City Market, housed in an old Sears building. Midtown has Piedmont Park, the Atlanta Botanical Garden, the High Museum of Art and the ornate Fox Theatre, and Historic Oakland Cemetery is a peaceful place to read the city's past in stone.

Atlanta suits food lovers and history-minded travelers who don't mind traffic. MARTA trains reach the airport, downtown and Midtown, but a car helps for outlying areas. Summers are hot and humid; spring brings blooming dogwoods.

Best seasonMarch through May and October through November offer mild temperatures and blooming or turning trees.

Ideal stayThree to four days covers downtown, Sweet Auburn, the BeltLine and Midtown.

ArrivingHartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is the main gateway, linked to the city by MARTA rail.

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Centennial Olympic Park

Created for the 1996 Summer Olympics, this 22-acre park downtown is now the heart of the city's main visitor district. Its Fountai...

The BeltLine Eastside Trail

The BeltLine is turning a 22-mile loop of old railway corridors into trails and parks, and the Eastside Trail is its most popular...

Piedmont Park and the Atlanta Botanical Garden

Midtown's 200-acre central park hosted the 1895 Cotton States Exposition and later was redesigned with help from the Olmsted Broth...

Stone Mountain Park

About 15 miles east of downtown, this park surrounds a huge granite dome rising roughly 825 feet above the surrounding land. You c...

Entertainment 1

Fox Theatre Atlanta

Opened in 1929 as a movie palace and Shriners temple, the Fox Theatre is famous for its Moorish and Egyptian-style interior, with...

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Georgia Aquarium

Opened in 2005 next to Centennial Olympic Park, the Georgia Aquarium is among the largest in the world. Its main tank, Ocean Voyag...

World of Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola was invented in Atlanta in 1886, and this museum by Centennial Olympic Park tells the story of the brand. Exhibits cover...

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National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Opened in 2014 on Pemberton Place, this museum connects the American civil rights movement to struggles for human rights around th...

High Museum of Art

The leading art museum in the southeastern United States, the High sits in Midtown's Woodruff Arts Center. Its bright white buildi...

Atlanta History Center

Set on 33 acres in Buckhead, the Atlanta History Center combines museum galleries with historic houses and gardens. Highlights inc...

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Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park

This national park preserves the Sweet Auburn neighbourhood where Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929. You can see his birth h...

Food and Drink 1

Ponce City Market

Housed in the vast brick building built in 1926 as a Sears, Roebuck and Co. warehouse and store, Ponce City Market sits right on t...

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