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Georgia, United States: places and wildlife — page 3

Browse the published Explore collection for Georgia, United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.

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National Center for Civil and Human Rights

National Center for Civil and Human Rights

Civil-rights history, the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. collection, interactive testimony, and global human-rights cases connect organized movements to choices made by individuals and institutions.

Atlanta History Center

Atlanta History Center

Exhibitions, archives, gardens, the 1928 Swan House, Smith Farm, cyclorama painting, and Black community histories examine a city repeatedly remade by war, transportation, segregation, and growth.

Fernbank Museum of Natural History

Fernbank Museum of Natural History

Large dinosaur mounts, Georgia geology, cultural collections, science interactives, giant-screen films, and 75 acres of old-growth and restored woodland join deep time to a living Piedmont landscape.

Tellus Science Museum

Tellus Science Museum

A vast mineral gallery, fossil hall, transportation collection, planetarium, and hands-on fossil and gem areas connect earth processes to engineering and extraction.

Booth Western Art Museum

Booth Western Art Museum

Large contemporary Western paintings and sculpture, presidential letters, Indigenous works, Civil War art, and temporary exhibitions reveal how national myths travel far from the places they depict.

Delta Flight Museum

Delta Flight Museum

Historic aircraft, a restored 1940s hangar, uniforms, route maps, advertising, and a full Boeing 747 trace Delta from crop dusting to global aviation.

World of Coca-Cola

World of Coca-Cola

Archives, advertising, bottling displays, scent and flavor interactives, the vault story, and international tasting turn a familiar product into a lesson in branding and distribution.

Tubman Museum

Tubman Museum

Murals, folk and contemporary art, inventions, music, local history, and temporary exhibitions center African American creativity in Georgia and beyond.

Augusta Museum of History

Augusta Museum of History

Augusta’s river economy, transportation, medicine, military history, golf culture, and James Brown share galleries with a restored 1914 locomotive and trolley tours.

Jimmy Carter National Historical Park

Jimmy Carter National Historical Park

Plains High School, the Boyhood Farm, campaign depot, railroad corridor, and community landscape connect Carter’s rural formation to civil rights, agriculture, faith, diplomacy, and public service.

Andersonville National Historic Site

Andersonville National Historic Site

The Civil War prison site, reconstructed stockade corners, Andersonville National Cemetery, and National Prisoner of War Museum address captivity from the 1860s through later conflicts.

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Fort rooms, breach damage, earthworks, river channels, Cockspur Island trails, and stories of confinement and emancipation connect engineering to the Civil War’s technological and political changes.

Fort Frederica National Monument

Fort Frederica National Monument

Archaeological foundations, tabby ruins, regiment history, river position, and live oaks preserve the town built to contest Spanish Florida in the 1730s.

Wormsloe State Historic Site

Wormsloe State Historic Site

Colonial tabby ruins, museum exhibits, trails, demonstrations, and a dramatic live-oak approach interpret the Jones estate and Georgia’s early colony.

New Echota State Historic Site

New Echota State Historic Site

Original and reconstructed buildings, the Cherokee Phoenix print shop, council house, Worcester home, and museum interpret the Cherokee Nation’s government before removal.

Chief Vann House State Historic Site

Chief Vann House State Historic Site

The 1804 brick mansion, cantilevered stair, period rooms, grounds, and exhibits interpret James Vann, Cherokee wealth, plantation slavery, violence, and dispossession.

Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site

Jarrell Plantation State Historic Site

Farmhouse, cotton gin, sawmill, cane press, barns, engines, and household spaces preserve a family agricultural complex operating from the 1840s into the twentieth century.

Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters

Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters

Regency architecture, a bridge stair, formal rooms, intact slave quarters, work yard, and surviving haint-blue ceiling make household power spatially legible.

Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace

Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace

Family rooms, decorative arts, art made by Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout history, and servant spaces connect one woman’s life to gender, disability, class, and civic organization.

Old Fort Jackson

Old Fort Jackson

Brick ramparts, powder rooms, artillery, harbor views, and demonstrations preserve Georgia’s oldest standing brick fort along the Savannah River.

Johnston–Felton–Hay House

Johnston–Felton–Hay House

The 1850s mansion combines a dramatic cupola, curved stair, painted finishes, ventilation, plumbing, and service systems created for Macon’s wealthy Johnston family.

Pasaquan

Pasaquan

Seven acres of painted walls, temples, figures, pathways, costumes, and symbols form the visionary environment created by Eddie Owens Martin, who renamed himself St. EOM.

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park

Earth Lodge floor, temple and burial mounds, wetlands, museum collections, and trails document more than 12,000 years of human presence along the Ocmulgee River.

Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site

Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site

Six mounds, village area, defensive ditch, Etowah River setting, museum objects, and iconography preserve a major Indigenous political center occupied between about 1000 and 1550.

Kolomoki Mounds State Park

Kolomoki Mounds State Park

Large platform, burial, and ceremonial mounds, museum excavations, lakes, and forest preserve a major community active roughly 350–750 CE.

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge

Blackwater trails, peat islands, cypress forest, prairies, alligators, cranes, pitcher plants, and dark-sky camps make one of North America’s great wetlands legible.

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Cumberland Island National Seashore

Undeveloped beaches, maritime forest, marsh, Dungeness ruins, Plum Orchard, wildlife, and layered Indigenous, African American, and estate histories fill Georgia’s largest barrier island.

Brasstown Bald

Brasstown Bald

An observation tower, museum, steep paved path, shuttle, and expansive views from 4,784 feet expose Blue Ridge ridges, watersheds, weather, and cultural geography.

Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area

Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area

Bare monadnocks, seasonal solution pools, red diamorpha, quarry remains, PATH trails, Flat Rock, Vaughters’ Farm, and Panola Mountain form a cultural and ecological mosaic east of Atlanta.

Atlanta Botanical Garden

Atlanta Botanical Garden

A canopy walk, Fuqua Conservatory, orchid center, edible garden, woodland, children’s garden, and changing installations make plant form visible from multiple heights and climates.

State Botanical Garden of Georgia

State Botanical Garden of Georgia

Native flora, themed gardens, conservatory collections, trails, pollinator work, and university research occupy more than 300 acres along the Middle Oconee River.

Gibbs Gardens

Gibbs Gardens

Japanese garden, daffodil fields, waterlilies, hydrangeas, woodland paths, ponds, and manor-house landscape spread across hundreds of rolling acres.

Callaway Resort & Gardens

Callaway Resort & Gardens

Azalea Bowl, butterfly center, lakes, trails, chapel, beaches, golf, and seasonal events spread across a very large Pine Mountain landscape.

Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens

Coastal Georgia Botanical Gardens

Camellias, bamboo, palms, heritage plants, Mediterranean and rose gardens, orchards, and an historic bamboo farm reveal what thrives in humid coastal Georgia.

Georgia Aquarium

Georgia Aquarium

Whale sharks, manta rays, belugas, sea lions, sharks, penguins, freshwater species, and major habitat systems occupy one of the world’s largest aquariums.

Zoo Atlanta

Zoo Atlanta

African elephants, great apes, reptiles, pandas, birds, and conservation programs fill a compact Grant Park campus with historic roots and modern habitats.

Georgia Sea Turtle Center

Georgia Sea Turtle Center

Rehabilitation tanks, treatment windows, interactive exhibits, field research, nest monitoring, and released-patient stories connect individual turtles to coastal systems.

Amicalola Falls State Park

Amicalola Falls State Park

Stair routes, accessible overlooks, mountain forest, lodge views, and the strenuous Approach Trail connect a major waterfall to Springer Mountain and long-distance hiking culture.

Cloudland Canyon State Park

Cloudland Canyon State Park

Rim overlooks, long stair descents to Cherokee and Hemlock Falls, Sitton Gulch, sandstone cliffs, caves, and backcountry trails create very different visits.

Tallulah Gorge State Park

Tallulah Gorge State Park

Rim trails, suspension bridge, staircases, five falls, hydroelectric history, and permit-only gorge floor expose geology and managed river flow.

Providence Canyon State Park

Providence Canyon State Park

Eroded canyons, multicolored sediments, forest regrowth, rim views, and canyon-floor trails reveal severe nineteenth-century agricultural erosion rather than an ancient western gorge.