Little Five Points keeps its music hidden behind the shopfronts. Aisle 5 at 1123 Euclid Avenue NE, in Atlanta's most defiantly alternative district, is a 300-capacity music venue, bar and restaurant tucked behind a retail space that fronts the avenue - the side entrance marked by wall art that changes often enough to double as a local landmark in rotation. The room runs the straightforward small-club formula: stage at one end, standing room to the back bar, and a booking policy that keeps the c.....

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.....

College football's oldest FBS stadium was built by the students who filled it. Bobby Dodd Stadium at Georgia Tech, on North Avenue at Techwood Drive in downtown Atlanta, has hosted football on the site since 1905 and as a proper stadium since 1913, when a 15,000-dollar gift from trustee John W. Grant - given in memory of his son Hugh Inman Grant, for whom the field was named - funded concrete west stands that Tech students largely built themselves. The horseshoe grew with the century: east stand.....

An Olympic venue hides in plain sight on a historically Black college campus in Atlanta. CAU Panther Stadium at 735 Beckwith Street SW, on the campus of Clark Atlanta University in the Atlanta University Center district, was built for the 1996 Summer Olympics as the secondary venue for field hockey, hosting the men's and women's preliminary competitions from 20 July to 2 August 1996 and lawn bowls during the Paralympics that followed. Before the Games the site was a grassy practice lot; the Olym.....

Built as the gathering place for the 1996 Summer Olympics, Centennial Olympic Park is a twenty-one-acre green space in the heart of downtown Atlanta that has become a permanent civic landmark. Created to give the Games a central public square, it remains a hub of celebration and recreation, anchored by a distinctive fountain shaped like the interlocking rings of the Olympic symbol. The park was carved out of a run-down stretch of downtown for the centennial Olympics, the hundredth anniversary o.....

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.....

Dedicated to the college game rather than the professional ranks, the College Football Hall of Fame celebrates more than a century of gridiron tradition across hundreds of universities. Although the institution and its honour roll of coaches and players date back to the 1950s, the museum that bears its name today opened in downtown Atlanta in August 2014, relocating from earlier homes in Ohio and Indiana to a purpose-built venue beside the city's convention district and sporting arenas. The bui.....

The Fabulous Fox, as Atlanta affectionately calls it, is among the most lavish surviving movie palaces in the United States, a riot of Moorish and Egyptian fantasy on Peachtree Street in the city's Midtown. The building began life in the late 1920s as an ambitious headquarters for a local Shriners organisation, but the extravagant cost outran their means, and the auditorium was leased to the film magnate William Fox. It opened on Christmas Day of 1929, just weeks after the stock-market crash tha.....

When the Georgia Aquarium opened in downtown Atlanta in November 2005, it ranked as the largest aquarium in the world, a distinction made possible by a landmark donation from Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus and his wife as a gift to the city and region. Sitting alongside other major attractions near Centennial Olympic Park, it remains one of the most ambitious facilities of its kind anywhere. Its signature habitat is the enormous Ocean Voyager exhibit, holding several million gallons of wat.....

It was the first state-owned convention centre in America, and the authority that runs it went on to build the Georgia Dome, Centennial Olympic Park and Mercedes-Benz Stadium around it. The Georgia World Congress Center, at 285 Andrew Young International Boulevard in downtown Atlanta, opened on 8 September 1976 with 350,000 square feet of exhibit space - already among the largest in the country - and has never stopped growing. Today the GWCC encloses 3.9 million square feet with more than 1.5 m.....