Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

A hidden oasis just two minutes from downtown Atlanta.

The only subterranean ping pong table in Atlanta.

The picturesque southern city served as the zombie-filled town of Woodbury in 'The Walking Dead.'

The small first-floor apartment where the author wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning book 'Gone with the Wind.'

A statue honoring 44 continuous years of greeting passing ships.

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

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

After just one epic test blast, this literal loose cannon proved too explosive for combat.

The first public building in Savannah to offer air conditioning was a luxurious cinema that still operates today.

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

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Military and first responders can test their skills in a Foggy Bottom mock station down in Georgia.

Performers, intricate sets, and a real speakeasy tell the story of the 18th Amendment.

Oldest and rarest examples of telecommunication in the world.

The site where Confederate president Jefferson Davis was defeated has been marked with a bust... that leaves that part out.

A sweet tribute to Georgia's official state vegetable, which even has its own mascot: "Yumion."

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

A massive tribute to this small county's top agricultural product.

FDR hoped to find a cure for polio in this Georgia town's warm springs.

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

A real (but thankfully not live) missile stands tall as a monument to the United States military in the small town of Cordele.

The house that Southern rock built now stands as a monument to one of the genre's favorite families.

The remnants of the fortress that saved Georgia from the Spanish still stand guard on their swampy island.