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North Georgia's gloriously weird side: a Bigfoot museum, the Cabbage Patch Kids' birthplace, a heritage railway, a forest slowly eating 4,000 vintage cars, a gold mine you climb inside, and the South's biggest apple orchard.
6 places · North Georgia
Must-seeA roadside museum that takes Bigfoot dead seriously: dioramas, casts of giant footprints and eyewitness lore, deep in the north Georgia mountains.
Must-seeThirty-plus acres of vintage cars slowly returning to the forest, mossed over and endlessly photogenic, the world's largest classic-car junkyard turned outdoor gallery.
Must-seeA hillside village of preserved log cabins, a blacksmith shop and mountain crafts that keeps southern Appalachian folkways alive, the museum behind the famous Foxfire books.
Must-seeThe whimsical 'hospital' where costumed staff deliver Cabbage Patch Kids from a magic crystal tree, a slice of only-in-Georgia Americana.
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45 placesThe Georgia stops worth building a day around. Atlanta's Coca-Cola vault and a whale shark the size of a school bus, the oak-shaded squares of Savannah, a visionary's painted folk-art compound in Buena Vista, FDR's Little White House, and a 56-foot sheet-metal chicken in Marietta. The famous, the historic, and the gloriously strange.
18 placesGeorgia's state parks pack a remarkable range into one state. Up north there are deep gorges and the tallest cascading waterfall in the Southeast; in the southwest, a pink-and-orange canyon erosion carved out of old farmland; through the middle, mineral springs and CCC-built lodges; and down south, the wild blackwater edge of the Okefenokee. These are the ones worth building a weekend around, from the Blue Ridge to the coast.
17 placesFrom Tallulah Gorge to Brasstown Bald, the waterfalls, summits and wilderness of Georgia's Blue Ridge: Cloudland Canyon and the Cohutta in the northwest, Amicalola and Springer in the center, the Rabun highlands in the northeast.