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ATTRACTIONS

Atlanta is a wonderful city to visit! History flows in the air at every step, and the wide and vast array of appealing attractions provide visitors with the ultimate sightseeing exeprience.

Fabulous museums, beautiful art galleries and eye-catching architectural jewels, as well as recreational opportunities for outdoor enthusiasts - these and much, much more awaits visitors in this beautiful and sophisticated city called Atlanta.

To get a more clear idea about what the city has to offer, check out the list below, which contains a few of the most popular and favorite attractions in Atlanta.

- Atlanta Botanical Garden, a beautiful and amazing piece of nature, composed of various, colorful themed gardens, including a living collection of poison arrow frogs set within a naturalistic setting, as well as The Hydrangea Collection, developed with the assistance of the Atlanta Chapter of the American Hydrangea Society, one of the finest in the Southeast, featuring more than 160 cultivars of Hydrangea macrophylla (both mophead and lacecap types), Hydrangea serrata cultivars (Mountain Hydrangea - a lacecap type from Japan), and Native Hydrangea arborescens.

- Georgia Aquarium, which takes visitors on a journey in the wonderful, lively, curious and colorful world of the sea. Visitors can take the East Side Tour, which provides a journey from tropical reefs, home to jellies and colorful fish, out to the open ocean where visitors can see large rays and whale sharks, or the West Side Tour, in which they can view sea turtles, otters and belugas as they travel from coast of Georgia out to the coast of the one world ocean.

- High Museum of Art, home to a vast and beautiful permanent collection which contains photography, African, American, decorative, European, modern and contemporary art, as well as folk art, in which the museum's collection ranks among the top five in the nation.

- Fernbank Museum of Natural History, featuring displays of cultural treasures and ancient fossils, science interactives, the largest dinosaurs ever discovered, a large IMAX Theatre and many other curiosity-arousing surprises. Among the museum's most popular permanent exhibits there is A Walk Through Time In Georgia, Sensing Nature and Giants of the Mesozoic.

Annual Events

Atlanta's Annual Jazz Festival is the nation's largest free jazz festival and it is also considered one of the world's greatest musical celebrations. Every year, during Memorial Day weekend, internationally renowned jazz performers invade Piedmont Park, Centennial Olympic Park, Underground Atlanta, Churchill Grounds and many other places, transforming the city into a large music stage, delighting visitors with their talent, past performers including resonant names from the jazz music industry such as Rialto Jazz for Kids All Star Band, Jay Norem and Keith White Quartet, The Steven Charles Band, Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Swing Streets and many others.