Spring has not sprung but when it does, the weather will be perking up and it will be perfect weather to go poking around some unusual sites in the area. I posted a list a few months back, but it's changed, because I've gone places and also found some other things to see. So the list grows instead of shrinks. I'd better get on this stuff.
To start off, here are the places I've visited, starting with the most recent:
- Dahlonega
- Big Red Apple
- Quinlan Visual Arts Center
- Oversized Rocker
- Rock City
- Old Joe
- Eastern Continental Divide
- Mule Camp Market
- Booger Hill
- Helen
- Gainesville Midland
- Sautee Nacoochee Mound
- Solar System walk
- Auraria
- Brenau's resident ghost, Agnes
- Big Red the Elephant
- Babyland General Hospital, home of the Cabbage Patch Kid
- Lake Lanier
- Monkey shrine art installation
- Poultry Park
- Georgia Guidestones
Huh, that's a lot when I put them in a list... but there's more to see! Here's my current list of place to go, things to do and people to see, in the order I wrote them down on a tiny yellow legal pad, but not the order you'll see them on the blog.
- Rabbit Statue - Rabbittown
- Panorama of Everything Elvis - Cornelia
- Tom Petty(?) statue - Dawsonville
- Motor speedways in the area - Toccoa, Brasleton, etc.
- Windy Hill/The Art of R.A. Miller - Rabbittown
- Georgia Museum of Art - Athens
- Dawson County Forest nuclear reactor - Dawsonville
- Tree that owns itself - Athens
- Uga tombs - Athens
- World's Largest Mattress - Jefferson
- Wampus Box - Sautee
- Strongest Man monument/memorial - Toccoa
- Mayfield Dairy - Braselton
- Double barreled cannon - Athens
- Horse statues/Eric Strauss artwork - Gainesville
- Mill town history - Chicopee and New Holland
- Stonepile Gap - Dahlonega
- Goats on a roof - Tiger
- Crawford Long Museum - Jefferson
- Southeastern Railway Museum - Duluth
- Local Graveyards - Flowery Branch, Alta Vista, Auraria, etc.
- 1936 Tornado history lesson - Gainesville
- North Georgia Zoo - Cleveland
- Piedmont Hotel - Gainesville
- Habersham County Bus Graveyard - Habersham
- Wallenda walk remains - Tullulah Gorge
- Track Rock Gap, petroglyph site - Habersham
- Blue Angels Studio - Gainesville
- Jane Taylor's studio, artwork - Gainesville
- Banks County ginning system - Banks County
- Moonshiner Legend - Dawson County
- Holly Theater - Dahlonega
- Red Oak Lavender Farm - Gainesville
- Beulah Rucker Museum - Gainesville
- Car graveyard - Bartow County (a bit of a drive but pretty neat)
- Any other haunted place in the area (tell me your favorite haunted spot!)
And lastly, there are a few things on my list I'm not sure are there anymore, or seem to have dropped off the face of the Earth, or I might not get any information on, or I know they're gone but I still want to include them. Those are:
- Charlemagne's Kingdom - Helen (From what I understand, you can call and get a special tour of the place)
- Banks County Speedway - near Baldwin
- Helean Grist Mill - Gainesville/Hall County
- Latty School House - Lula
- Haunted Buford General - Buford (no longer standing, but apparently had some pretty good ghost stories - speaking of ghosts, is that legend about East Hall Middle School true? I want to know.)
- Old gas station on Atlanta Highway - Flowery Branch
And there you have it. My latest, and ever-growing, list of place to go. Have an idea, a place I've missed, or a request from the list above? Shoot me an email or a tweet: @AlysonWDUN
Until next time (maybe later this week, even!)
Stay curious.
