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Georgia State Capitol was patterned after the National Capitol. Gold leaf mined in north Georgia covers the exterior dome. Inside, the Georgia State Museum of Science and Industry displays rocks, minerals, fossils, commercial products and Indian artifacts.
The Antebellum Plantation is a complex of early 19th-century homes and buildings relocated from throughout the state. The buildings include the main house, overseer`s house, slave cabins and a country store, all furnished in period.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Center
The tomb of Atlanta`s native son, civil rights leader and Nobel Prize winner, stands next to the Ebenezer Baptist Church, so closely associated with his life, work and death. The birthplace house is in the next block. Across Auburn Avenue is the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
The Fox Theatre
The Fox is not just a movie theater, but a complex of different facilities, including the 7.000-square-foot Egyptian Ballroom, Grand Salon, executive offices and the Grand Auditorium. The auditorium was conceived as an open courtyard in a Moorish city, with twinkling stars and floating clouds in an azure sky overhead. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places, the Fox is now used for performances of a wide scope of entertainment, from Broadway musicals and plays to rock concerts and classic films.
Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta`s largest convention center, located next to the Omni Hotel. The World Congress Center boasts exhibit areas totaling 639.000 square feet, the equivalent of more than 13 football fields. This unique structure offers simultaneous interpretation facilities for up to six languages in a theater and meeting room. Georgia`s products, tourist attractions and heritage are displayed in the Georgia Hall.
Peachtree Center
Renowed for its unique modern architecture, this downtown center now includes seven office towers, shops and restaurants, the 70.000 square-foot Peachtree Athletic Club and three hotels the Hyatt Regency Atlanta, the 73-story Westin Peachtree Plaza, and the Marietta Marquis, the largest convention hotel in the Southeast. Also included as part of the Atlanta Market Center complex are the Atlanta Apparel Mart and Atlanta Merchandise Mart.
Atlanta Botanical Garden
The center´s 60 acres contain vegetable, herb, Japanese and rose gardens, forest walking trails and a glass-enclosed conservatory for tropical, Mediterranean, desert and endangered plants.
Atlanta History Center encompasses 32 acres of gardens and woodland trails that are the setting for two historic homes. Swan House is a 1928 Palladian-style mansion furnished in period; Tullie Smith Farm is an 1840s plantation farmhouse completed with traditional outbuildings.
Zoo Atlanta exhibits more than 1.000 animals on 37 acres. Known for ist reptile collection and children`s zoo, the zoo also includes the Ford Rain Forest, where mountain gorillas live in family groups; Flamingo Plaza, home to 50 Chilean flamingos; Masai Mara, a replica of the East African plains with browsing giraffes, antelopes and the endangered black rhinoceros; and the Ketambe exhibit, home to rare Sumatran tigers.
Robert W. Woodruffs Arts Center is dedicated to the 122 Atlanta Art Association members killed in a Paris plane crash in 1962. The four-story center offers education and entertainment in the visual and performing arts.
High Museum Of Arts is a modern six-story building sheathed in white enamel panels. The museum incorporates large windows and a soaring atrium lit by skylights, allowing glimpses of more than one exhibition area at a time and both distant and close-up views of individual works of art. Permanent exhibits include Italian art from the 14th-18th centuries, 19th-century French and 19th- and 20th-century American art, African art, photographs, prints, and an extensive collection of decorative arts. Paintings by American artists form the basis of the collection.
SciTrek, the sience and technology museum of Atlanta
More than 100 exhibits in four main halls -- Simple Machines; Light, Color and Perception; Electricity and Magnetism; and Kidspace -- provide opportunities for learning about science and technology through hands-on participation.
The World of Coca-Cola
This $15 million, 45.000-square-foot, three-story facility commemorates more than a century of one of America`s favourite refreshments. The outside features a 12-ton neon display, while inside, Coca-Cola artifacts, technological displays and interactive exhibits are presented.
CNN Center
Hourly tours provide an inside look at Turner Broadcasting`s networks -- CNN and Headline News -- which revolutionized television journalism with their 24-hour live news coverage.
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