Offbeat North GeorgiaExpedition: Bigfoot, The Sasquatch MuseumFoxfire Museum & Appalachian Heritage Center

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Offbeat North Georgia

North Georgia's odd side, for when the waterfalls start to run together.

6 places · North Georgia

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Expedition: Bigfoot, The Sasquatch MuseumMust-see
Sasquatch, fully committed

Expedition: Bigfoot, The Sasquatch Museum

Find the cast of a Bigfoot butt-print laid out on red velvet, then sit in the Sasquatch Theater for the eyewitness footage. It's on Highway 515 between Blue Ridge and Ellijay, and adults get in for $9.

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Cherry Log, GA North Georgia Mountains
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Old Car City USAMust-see
The two-ton flowerpot Chevy

Old Car City USA

More than 4,000 cars from 1972 or earlier are rusting into the woods along six miles of trail. Photographers pay a few dollars more than walkers, and it's open Tuesday through Saturday.

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White, GA Northwest Georgia
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Foxfire Museum & Appalachian Heritage CenterMust-see
Started by a 1966 English class

Foxfire Museum & Appalachian Heritage Center

Rabun County students interviewed their grandparents about cabin-building and moonshine, and the royalties from the Foxfire books bought this land in 1974. A half-mile trail runs past more than 20 log buildings.

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Mountain City, GA North Georgia Mountains
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Babyland General HospitalMust-see
Where Cabbage Patch Kids are born

Babyland General Hospital

Every hour a Licensed Patch Nurse doses a Mother Cabbage with Imagicillin and delivers a doll from the Magic Crystal Tree. The staff play it completely straight, and admission is free.

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Cleveland, GA North Georgia Mountains
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Mercier Orchards Attractions

Mercier Orchards

Blue Ridge, GA · North Georgia Mountains

Pick from more than 40 apple varieties. The fried pies are sold warm, by the case if you want.

Consolidated Gold Mine Attractions

Consolidated Gold Mine

Dahlonega, GA · North Georgia Mountains$$

Tour the tunnels of what was once the largest gold mine east of the Mississippi, then pan for gold, in the town where America's first major gold rush began.

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Tellus Science Museum Attractions

Tellus Science Museum

Cartersville, GA · Northwest Georgia$$

A Smithsonian-affiliate science museum off I-75 where a hall of full-size dinosaur skeletons gives way to a mineral gallery glittering with cut gems and raw crystals. Kids pan…

Booth Western Art Museum Attractions

Booth Western Art Museum

Cartersville, GA · Northwest Georgia$$

One gallery at this Western art museum in Cartersville, Georgia, holds a portrait and a hand-signed letter from every U.S. president, starting with Washington. Frederic Remington…

Rock City Gardens Attractions

Rock City Gardens

Lookout Mountain, GA · Northwest Georgia$$

A walking trail threads between towering ancient sandstone formations atop Lookout Mountain, past the 100-foot Mushroom Rock, across the swaying Swing-A-Long Bridge, and out to…

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