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Visitor's Guide

Visitor Information
Events and Festivals at Piedmont Park
Best Tourist Spots
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Visitor Information
Events and Festivals at Piedmont Park
Five Things to Do Today
Tourist/Visitor Lists
Tourist Spots

Creative Loafing is an intensely local guide. We've been publishing a newspaper in the area since 1972 and just about all of the culture has been reported in the newspaper or on this website. Looking for things to do in the area? We can direct you.

Here's our suggestion. Work off this page - start with the 5 Things to Do list below which are our recommendations for today's events - one of these might catch your fancy. We've got a full City Guide of suggestions for locals if you want to go native. We have also included a list of tourist-oriented suggestions below as well as our favorite local attractions. If you are looking for events at the neighborhood level, take a look at our What's Going On to get the best local information available.

Five Things to Do Today

JUNE 6, 2026

Bank Of America: Museums On Us

Bank of America’s Museums on Us program provides one free general admission to participating museums for eligible cardholders on the first full weeken...

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Fernbank Adventuresinscience 2024 Activitylisting

Culturally Relevant Science

06/06/2026 10:00 AM

Fernbank Museum of Natural History

Join Culturally Relevant Science for a thrilling adventure into the world of science.

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Virginia-Highland Summerfest

06/06/2026 11:00 AM

Virginia-Highland Civic Association

Join us for the 41st Annual Virginia-Highland Summerfest on Sat- Sun, June 6-7. This year's festival features an Artist Market with 200+ Fine Art and ...

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Amplify Decatur Music Festival (Day Two)

06/06/2026 3:00 PM

Decatur Square & Courthouse

CRITIC’S PICK
Sat., June 6

Amplify Decatur Music Festival, Downtown Decatur, GA — The second...

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Susan Ker-Seymer: Some Kind Of Love

06/06/2026 6:00 PM

Marcia Wood Gallery

CRITIC'S PICK: Some Kind Of Love, Marcia Wood Gallery — Susan Ker-Seymer’s latest exhibition...

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Tourist/Visitor Lists

Best Tourist Spots

03/26/2021 10:31 AM

Our list of the best tourist spots in Atlanta. For locals and out of towners.

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10 history lessons you'll find in Atlanta

12/26/2020 4:00 AM

Educational landmarks from the museum to the grave

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Atlanta's surviving hip-hop haunts

10/21/2019 3:08 PM

Explore these rap-related cultural landmarks in Atlanta

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Tourist Spots

Atlanta History Center

Founded in 1926, the center includes the Atlanta History Museum featuring signature and traveling exhibitions, the Smith Family Farm, the 1928 Swan Ho...

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Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum

Presidential Library system and museum with special exhibitions and a permanent collection that features photographs and historic memorabilia from the...

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Atlanta Botanical Garden

Atlanta's most fragrant attraction blooms with more than 3,000 ornamental plants spread over 30 acres adjacent to Piedmont Park, including a rare 15-a...

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Delta Flight Museum

Housed in Delta's two 1940s aircraft hangers. Includes Ship 41, the first Douglas DC-3 to carry Delta passengers in 1940; the Spirit of Delta, Delta's...

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