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Cleveland, Georgia

Costumed nurses deliver Cabbage Patch Kids from a magical tree inside an elaborate doll hospital.

Buena Vista, Georgia

A seven-acre visionary art compound glows with concrete totems, painted walls, and a private cosmic religion.

White, Georgia

More than four thousand vintage vehicles rust beneath trees along miles of wooded junkyard trails.

Austell, Georgia

A cheerful monster picnic turns into a boat ride through a swampy underworld packed with animatronic creatures.

Milledgeville, Georgia

A vast former mental-hospital campus contains monumental buildings, quiet cemeteries, and difficult institutional history.

Marietta, Georgia

A 56-foot steel chicken with rolling eyes and a moving beak towers over a working KFC.

Lumpkin, Georgia

Georgia's colorful Little Grand Canyon is a spectacular landscape created partly by disastrous farming erosion.

Eatonton, Georgia

Thousands of quartz rocks form a mysterious prehistoric bird best seen from a stone observation tower.

St. Marys, Georgia

Wild horses wander around the roofless shell of a Carnegie mansion on a ferry-only barrier island.

Jekyll Island, Georgia

Bleached trunks and skeletal branches turn a Georgia beach into a natural sculpture garden.