Martin Luther King Sr. preached the first service; the bass bins arrived a century later. Believe Music Hall at 181 Ralph David Abernathy Boulevard occupies the 1907 church that Mechanicsville knew as the mighty fortress - designed by Alexander Campbell Bruce, Atlanta's first American Institute of Architects member, home to St. John's Methodist and later St. Stephens Missionary Baptist, whose opening-night sermon in 1958 was delivered by the elder King. The building passed through years of secul.....

No stadium in America has lived three lives quite like this one. Center Parc Stadium at 755 Hank Aaron Drive SE in Atlanta's Summerhill neighbourhood began as Centennial Olympic Stadium, the 209-million-dollar, 85,000-seat centrepiece of the 1996 Summer Olympics that hosted the opening and closing ceremonies and Michael Johnson's 200-metre world record. Immediately after the Paralympics it was rebuilt - as designed from the start - into the 50,000-seat Turner Field ballpark, where the Atlanta Br.....

Wine country moved into a 1926 Sears warehouse when City Winery Atlanta opened at Ponce City Market in June 2016. The venue at 650 North Avenue NE occupies a corner of the vast brick Sears, Roebuck and Co. building in the Old Fourth Ward - the largest brick structure in the Southeast, reborn as a food hall, office and retail hub on the BeltLine's Eastside Trail - and brought founder Michael Dorf's urban winery concept to the South. Dorf, who launched New York's Knitting Factory in 1987 before cr.....

Atlanta's big summer shed has answered to six different names - but three decades of lawn crowds have only ever called it Lakewood. The Lakewood Amphitheatre, at 2002 Lakewood Avenue SE on the old Lakewood Fairgrounds south of downtown, opened in July 1989 as a purpose-built 18,920-capacity outdoor music venue - 7,000 covered pavilion seats and a 12,000-person lawn. The venue arrived with the amphitheatre boom: a 10-million-dollar build by concert promoter PACE on 75 acres of the beloved former.....

Set within historic Grant Park, just south-east of downtown, Zoo Atlanta is one of the oldest continuously operating zoos in the United States, its origins reaching back to 1889 when a local businessman donated a small menagerie of circus animals to the city. From those modest beginnings the zoo grew gradually for the next century before undergoing a celebrated, top-to-bottom reinvention in the 1980s that turned it from a struggling outfit into one of the most highly regarded mid-sized zoos in t.....