History in Georgia

Discover 13 places to experience unusual history in Georgia.

Savannah, Georgia

Savannah Pirates and Treasure Museum

High seas history comes to life at this immersive museum with an on-site tavern.

Savannah, Georgia

Wormsloe State Historic Site

The tabby ruin is Savannah’s oldest surviving structure.

Shady Dale, Georgia

Shady Dale Bank and Old Stagecoach Stop

This old building has served as a bank, post office, library, and city hall.

Atlanta, Georgia

Owl Rock

This Native American petroglyph marks the location of an important, Creek trail.

An exterior view.

Torrey-West House

This mansion on an island off the coast of Georgia once belonged to a 108-year-old heiress.

The cemetery is small and walled.

Jekyll Island, Georgia

DuBignon Cemetery

A modest walled graveyard where nobody is actually buried.

The Appalachian Trail Shoe Tree

Blairsville, Georgia

The Appalachian Trail Shoe Tree

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

Gravestones with planes taking off above.

Atlanta, Georgia

Flat Rock and Hart Cemeteries

Two Civil War-era cemeteries stuck between runways at the world's busiest airport.

Original Dare Stone

Gainesville, Georgia

Dare Stones

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

The Robert C. Williams Paper Museum.

Atlanta, Georgia

Robert C. Williams Paper Museum

One of the world’s largest collections of paper memorabilia chronicles 4,000 years of papermaking.

Sideways' grave at Georgia Tech.

Atlanta, Georgia

The Sideways Grave of Sideways the Dog

A slanted tomb honors the faithful, furry companion of the Georgia Tech student body.

East side of "The Abbey" mausoleum at Westview Cemetery.

Atlanta, Georgia

Westview Cemetery

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

The outside of the museum.

Savannah, Georgia

Pin Point Heritage Museum

A unique museum dedicated to the Gullah-Geechee people, housed within an old oyster cannery.

Tennille, Georgia

Pig Monument

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

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