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If you\u2019ve ever wanted to know what it feels like to crush things behind the wheel of an armored military vehicle, Tank Town USA in Morgantown is the place for you. For a small fee you can actually drive a tank over a car.<\/p>\n
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Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, GA occupies over 70,000 square feet and acts like a real hospital with dolls instead of patients. It\u2019s a pretty bizarre sight. You even get the chance to adopt a newly \u201cborn\u201d doll for yourself.<\/p>\n
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Seated at his iconic piano, this Albany statue pays tribute to the blind musical legend, Ray Charles.<\/p>\n
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Other states might claim to be home to the world\u2019s largest peanut, but the giant peanut in Ashburn is actually the biggest. Off of I-75, this monument is around 20 feet tall!<\/p>\n
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Housed in Ashburn\u2019s Museum Of Crime And Punishment, a visit here will give you a first-hand look at what an electric chair looks like. Operating out of an old jail, their collection also features other artifacts related to the history of the South\u2019s justice system.<\/p>\n
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While this \u201cspiritual mascot\u201d might be famous around Emory University, a lot of Georgians have never heard of him.
\nTo keep it short and sweet, there\u2019s a statue of a skeleton on campus named Lord Dooley and every year during Dooley\u2019s Week someone dons a skeleton costume and mysteriously walks around campus dismissing random classes.<\/p>\n
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Everyone has probably carried a lunch box at some point in their life, but very few have made the trek to the Lunch Box Museum in Columbus. With a collection that spans several decades, certain boxes here are said to be worth as much as $10,000.<\/p>\n
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One of the most unique wax museums in the country, the figures you\u2019ll see here aren\u2019t your typical set of celebrities.
\nThe Follow the Leaders Wax Museum in Warm Springs instead features famous American historical figures including plenty of presidents, civil rights leaders and even a signed wax figure of Albert Einstein.<\/p>\n
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At home in Cornelia, the Big Red Apple was built in 1925 and weighs over 2.5 tons. Just imagine how jealous all of your friends will be when you post a selfie with this.<\/p>\n
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Tucked off the side of I-75 in the Cordele area, there\u2019s a huge Cold War era missile that has been disarmed and put up for display. Standing at 98 feet tall, it\u2019s hard to imagine how huge these weapons are until you see it through your own two eyes.<\/p>\n
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While Georgia might be nearly 1,000 miles from New York, there\u2019s actually a museum in McRae that has a 1\/12 scale version of the Statue of Liberty. Here\u2019s a fun fact, her head was carved with a chainsaw out of a stump found in a local swamp.<\/p>\n
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We all know that Waffle House is a huge deal in the South, but most people wouldn\u2019t have guessed that there would be a museum commemorating the life of this chain.
\nBuilt on the site of the very first Waffle House, these restaurants have since expanded out of Decatur into 24 other states since serving their first waffles in 1955.<\/p>\n
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You read that right. The Panoramic Encyclopedia Of Elvis in Cornelia features all sorts of crazy Elvis memorabilia, including a preserved wart that was removed from \u201cthe King\u2019s\u201d body.<\/p>\n
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This peculiar attraction can be found hunting around Waycross. While the entire story will never be known, Stuckie the dog was discovered stuck in a tree where he became petrified over time. You\u2019ll have to see this one to believe it.<\/p>\n
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Georgia might seem like an odd place for the Tupac Amaru Shakur Center for the Arts honoring this late West-Coast rapper, but it\u2019s there in Stone Mountain and it was actually founded by his mother.
\nVisitors are welcome to take their picture with a life-size bronze statue of this legendary rapper during their time there.<\/p>\n
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A landmark on the campus of Life University, these giant hands belong to this school\u2019s founder, Dr. Sid Williams. Interestingly enough, one of his fingers features a championship football ring from Georgia Tech, another school in Georgia<\/p>\n
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Built as an experimental weapon during the Civil War-era, the cannon in Athens is the only one of its type still around today.<\/p>\n
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Stretching two stories tall, full of model trains and buildings, this Bavarian style miniature village is an extremely impressive site that can\u2019t be missed during a trip through Helen.
\nKnown as Charlemagne\u2019s Kingdom, this display of German pride even has a 22 foot tall mountain that houses its control room.<\/p>\n
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Next time you\u2019re near Lumpkin, take a detour through Providence Canyon State Park to check out this beautiful natural attraction.
\nConsisting of 15 canyons altogether reaching depths of 150 feet, it\u2019s nowhere near as huge as the 6,000 foot deep Grand Canyon, but it\u2019s still pretty impressive.<\/p>\n
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Standing 20 feet tall over Gainesville, this giant rabbit pays tribute to the town\u2019s old name \u201cRabbittown.\u201d This name might sound funny but it makes sense when you consider the many rabbit farms once present in the area often served as a food source for locals.<\/p>\n
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Spending over 30 years on a living, breathing art display, a trip to Eddie Martin\u2019s Pasaquan Folk Art Palace is a one-of-a-kind experience. Sitting on a 7-acre compound, Martin funded his project using his profits from fortune-telling.<\/p>\n
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There\u2019s a reason that smile looks familiar \u2014 it was modeled after Jimmy Carter\u2019s grin. Located outside of a mini-mart in his hometown of Plains, this is definitely one of the most unique commemorative statues in America.<\/p>\n
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Standing only 10 feet by 15 feet, this tiny church in South Newport only has enough room to seat 12 people and a minister. It is the true definition of quaint.<\/p>\n
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Home to nearly 50,000 pieces of colorful art, most of which consists of plywood cutouts, Howard Finster\u2019s Paradise Garden in Summerville is certainly worth checking out. A lot of the art here exhibits a heavy religious undertone, with almost everything covered in Bible verses.<\/p>\n
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Well, technically it\u2019s not actually the world\u2019s strongest man. It\u2019s just a statue of him. World-known for picking heavy things up and sitting them back down, Georgia-born Paul Anderson is famous for once lifting 6,270 pounds on his back.
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1. Drivable Tanks Source: Tank Town USA via Facebook If you\u2019ve ever wanted to know what it feels like to crush things behind the wheel of an armored military vehicle, Tank Town USA in Morgantown is the place for you. For a small fee you can actually drive a tank over a car. 2. An ICU Filled With Cabbage Patch Kids Source: Flickr User william_mckeehan (cropped) Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, GA occupies over 70,000 square feet and acts like a real hospital with dolls instead of patients. It\u2019s a pretty bizarre sight. You even get the chance to adopt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinions","post--single"],"yoast_head":"\n