One of the largest history museums in the country, the Atlanta History Center spreads across a wooded campus in the Buckhead district, combining museum galleries, historic houses, gardens and a vast painting depicting a Civil War battle. Founded in the 1920s, it gathers under one institution the story of Atlanta, the American South and the Civil War, told through immersive exhibits and preserved buildings. The centre grew from a local historical society into a sprawling complex set among garden.....

A handsome art deco landmark in the affluent Buckhead district of Atlanta, the Buckhead Theatre is a historic venue on Roswell Road that has been entertaining the city since 1931. Originally opened as a cinema and known over the decades by several names, the Spanish Baroque and art deco building was restored and reopened as a live-music venue, preserving its ornate facade and period detailing while adapting the interior for concerts and events. The room holds around eighteen hundred people acro.....

Built entirely around the world's most famous building bricks, the LEGO Discovery Center Atlanta is an indoor family attraction tucked inside a major shopping mall in the upscale Buckhead district. Part of an international chain of such centres, it is designed chiefly for younger children and their families, packing a colourful mix of hands-on play areas, gentle rides and brick-built spectacle into a single climate-controlled space. A highlight for many visitors is the miniature cityscape, wher.....

Built around the surprisingly soothing pleasures of slime, the Sloomoo Institute Atlanta is an immersive, sensory experience that elevates a childhood plaything into an entire afternoon of tactile fun. An offshoot of an original venue in New York that drew enormous crowds, the brand has expanded into several American cities with locations devoted to play, design and a vivid, candy-coloured aesthetic that flows from room to room. The visit unfolds as a series of interactive stations. Walls lined.....

Atlanta's oldest outdoor music venue was a wartime afterthought - a county commissioner squeezed a bandshell into a park plan, and eighty years of summer nights followed. The amphitheater at 4469 Stella Drive in Chastain Park opened on 20 June 1944 as the North Fulton Park Amphitheatre, modelled on Richmond's Byrd Park bowl after commissioner Troy Green Chastain sent scouts to five cities. Chastain died in 1946 and the park and venue took his name - the identity that stuck through every subsequ.....