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.....

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.....

Bobby Jones played his first round of golf here and his last, and the course that raised him now crowns the PGA Tour's season every September. East Lake Golf Club at 2575 Alston Drive SE, five miles east of downtown Atlanta, was established in 1904 when the Atlanta Athletic Club - whose athletics director was John Heisman, of trophy fame - bought a former amusement-park tract in DeKalb County and had Tom Bendelow lay out the city's first golf course. The 18-hole course and clubhouse opened on 4 .....

Tucked beside a rare tract of old-growth forest in a leafy Atlanta neighbourhood, the Fernbank Museum of Natural History pairs grand exhibition halls with a living woodland just outside its doors. The museum opened in 1992 on land linked to the adjacent Fernbank Forest, a preserved sixty-five-acre remnant of the hardwood ecosystem that once blanketed the region, and the relationship between indoor collections and outdoor nature remains central to its identity. The building's soaring central atr.....

Part restaurant, part rock-and-roll museum, the Hard Rock Cafe Atlanta is a downtown outpost of the globe-spanning chain that began in London in 1971 and grew into one of the most recognisable hospitality brands in the world. Located on Peachtree Street in the heart of the city, within easy reach of major hotels, convention venues and nearby attractions, it offers the familiar blend of American comfort food and music memorabilia that defines the marque. The walls and display cases are the draw .....

Opened in 2021 beside the Atlanta BeltLine in the Old Fourth Ward, Illuminarium is a purpose-built venue for large-scale immersive experiences, where floor-to-ceiling projection and spatial sound transform a cavernous hall into shifting worlds. Conceived by veterans of film and themed entertainment, it set out to offer something between a cinema, an art installation and a theme-park ride, with Atlanta serving as its flagship. The core attractions are immersive journeys that surround visitors on.....

The stages are named Heaven, Hell and Purgatory - and Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead and the Foo Fighters have all climbed the stairway. The Masquerade, Atlanta's definitive alternative music venue since September 1989, now runs its multi-room operation from Kenny's Alley in Underground Atlanta at 50 Lower Alabama Street downtown. The original home was gothic-industrial made literal: the DuPre Excelsior Mill on North Avenue - an 1890s wood-shavings factory of stone, timber and antique mach.....

Built in 1911 as a Baptist church, the four-storey brick building at 152 Luckie Street in downtown Atlanta now leads a second life as one of the city's best-loved mid-sized concert halls. It rose from the congregation founded by Dr Leonard Gaston Broughton, who broke away from an existing church in the late 1890s; designed by Chattanooga architect Reuben Harrison Hunt, it broke ground in 1909 and held its first services on 3 September 1911, with thousands gathering for an extended dedication. T.....