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Babyland General Hospital

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Babyland General Hospital

Cleveland, GA · North Georgia Mountains

About

This columned white mansion is the official "birthplace" of the Cabbage Patch Kids, the soft-sculpture dolls Xavier Roberts dreamed up in these North Georgia hills. Time your visit for the hourly "delivery," when a Licensed Patch Nurse tends the Magic Crystal Tree, announces that a Mother Cabbage is in labor, doses her with "Imagicillin," and pulls a freshly born baby from the leaves while pink and blue BunnyBees decide the gender. You wander rooms full of dolls in incubators and adoption cribs, and yes, you can take one home with its own birth certificate. Admission is free, the staff play it gloriously straight, and the whole thing lands somewhere between sweet and wonderfully surreal.

Highlights

Free hourly Cabbage Patch Kid 'birth' staged at the Magic Crystal TreeLicensed Patch Nurses who deliver babies in deadpan characterPink and blue BunnyBees that 'decide' each newborn's genderColumned mansion full of dolls in incubators and adoption cribsAdopt a doll with its own official birth certificate

Getting there

300 NOK Drive, Cleveland, GA 30528

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