This large African-American cultural museum highlights both local and national issues.

In the 1880s, before there were epic motion pictures, there were Cycloramas. This 42-foot-high cylindrical oil painting depicts the Battle of Atlanta in 1864. Viewed from a 360-degree rotating platform, the vivid details of this historic Civil War battle are now restored and enhanced with music, narration and sound effects. Accompanying the Cyclorama is the Civil War Museum, highlighted by a steam locomotive from 1862.

Home to the world's first and largest 24-hour news network, the CNN Center features a Studio Tour that treats visitors to a behind-the scenes look at the live newsrooms in action. The tour features history and trivia as well as interactive exhibits that put visitors in the control room and at the anchor desk of their own television newscast.

The heart of African American commerce and culture in Atlanta at the turn of the century.

This 45,000-square-foot museum on the campus of Emory University is the largest natural history museum in the Southeast.

The Georgia Aquarium is the largest in the world with over 8 million gallons of water and more animals than any other Aquarium!  Located in downtown Atlanta, this Aquarium always has new and exciting...

This art and theater complex is home to Atlanta's largest and most prominent art institutions.

The Carter Presidential Library and Museum re-opens October 1, 2009 as an all-new,state-of-the-art museum tracing the life and work of President Jimmy Carter, from his childhood in Plains to the work he and Mrs. Carter do around the world to promote peace and health.

Elegant and expensive Atlanta shopping mall.

Georgia State University 's Rialto Center for the Performing Arts is an 833-seat performing-arts venue located in the heart of the Fairlie-Poplar district in downtown Atlanta .

One of the largest natural history museums in the U.S., the Fernbank's architecture is as intriguing as the fascinating exhibits inside. The building has spiraling staircases, huge columns, a brick atrium and windows looking out onto the forest that it borders. The exhibits are spectacular and include a life-sized kaleidoscope, a skeleton of the largest dinosaur ever discovered, an IMAX theater and a "Walk Through Time in Georgia," a story of the earth's develoment, complete with sound effects and recreated landscapes of a swamp, cavern, marsh and plateau.