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.....

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.....

A mattress warehouse with bullet holes in the front window became the heart of East Atlanta Village, one hand-built bar at a time. The EARL - the East Atlanta Restaurant and Lounge - opened in July 1999 at 488 Flat Shoals Avenue, built largely by founder John Searson himself, a restaurant-business newcomer who called licensed contractors only when the law required it. The origin details are village folklore: the bar top was cut from a tree that fell on Searson's property during construction, a .....