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The Big Chicken

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The Big Chicken

Marietta, GA · Metro Atlanta

About

A 56-foot steel rooster towers over Cobb Parkway with a yellow beak that opens and shuts and eyes that roll, a roadside KFC sign that has marked the spot since 1963. Locals give directions by it and pilots reportedly used it as a visual checkpoint, and when storm damage nearly doomed it in 1993 the public outcry kept it standing. Pull in for a bucket and a photo under one of the South's most beloved pieces of programmatic architecture.

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Getting there

12 Cobb Parkway N, Marietta, GA 30062

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Nearly half of these Georgia attractions are in two cities, 14 in Atlanta and eight in Savannah. Some of the rest take ten minutes, like the 56-foot Big Chicken on Cobb Parkway or the oak in Athens that legally owns itself.