Swan House at Atlanta History Center Georgia is home to lots of great museums...like the Swan House at the Atlanta History Center. (Jason Hales/Atlanta History Center)
CFHOF celebrates inductees with new exhibit the College Football Hall of Fame. (College Football Hall of Fame)
High Museum of Art announces reopening plan and the High Museum of Art.
Expedition Bigfoot But the state is home to plenty of unusual museums as well.
Unusual Georgia Museums Let's check out some of the museums you might not know existed in Georgia...
Graveface Museum This is the Graveface Museum in Savannah. (Graveface Museum)
Graveface Museum The Graveface Museum is an informative and immersive glimpse into the human condition through actual artifacts and decades worth of research on topics ranging from true crime, cults, sideshow history, 1950s roadside attractions, secret societies, and the occult. (Graveface Museum)
Graveface Museum The museum is home to the largest collection of John Wayne Gacy artwork and personal effects, as well as the largest collection of artifacts from the Ed Gein case on public display. (Graveface Museum)
Graveface Museum Check it out online at gravefacemuseum.com/. (Graveface Museum)
Graveface Museum Here are some more photos from the Graveface Museum in Savannah. (Graveface Museum)
Graveface Museum Here are some more photos from the Graveface Museum in Savannah. (Graveface Museum)
Graveface Museum Here are some more photos from the Graveface Museum in Savannah. (Graveface Museum)
Graveface Museum Here are some more photos from the Graveface Museum in Savannah. (Graveface Museum)
Uncle Remus Museum Where can you find this peculiar creature? (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum And this one? (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum If you head to Eatonton... (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum You'll find the Uncle Remus Museum. (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum "The Uncle Remus Museum strives to educate visitors about the life and work of Joel Chandler Harris using historic storytelling, period artifacts, dioramas of the more famous Uncle Remus character, local history during Harris' formative years, and informative tours," the museum's website notes. (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum Breb Rabbit is one of his most famous works. (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum "Who knew a boy born in Eatonton, GA December 9th, 1845 would go on to become one of America's finest writers," the museum's website states. "From a young age Joel was surrounded by literature and gained experience while working as a printer's devil at Turnwold Plantation in East Eatonton. During Joel's time at Turnwold he experienced the stories and language of the plantation's slaves. It was these experiences that would shape Joel's famous Uncle Remus stories." (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum Many historians note Joel Chandler Harris' legacy is complicated. On one hand, he wrote about African American characters, but on the other hand, his portrayal is considered racist. (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum Here are some more photos from the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton. (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum Here are some more photos from the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton. (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum Here are some more photos from the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton. (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum Here are some more photos from the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton. (Nelson Hicks)
Uncle Remus Museum Here are some more photos from the Uncle Remus Museum in Eatonton. (Nelson Hicks)
Expedition Bigfoot Has bigfoot been spotted in the north Georgia mountains?
Expedition Bigfoot This is Expedition Bigfoot, the Sasquatch Museum in Blue Ridge.
Expedition Bigfoot The 4,000 square foot complex includes genuine artifacts, life size displays, amini research vehicle, full size Sasquatch, Florida/Georgia sighting maps, the "Sasquatch Theater"and more!
Expedition Bigfoot Check out https://www.expeditionbigfoot.com/ for more.
Expedition Bigfoot Here are some more photos from Expedition Bigfoot, a museum in Blue Ridge.
Expedition Bigfoot Here are some more photos from Expedition Bigfoot, a museum in Blue Ridge.
Expedition Bigfoot Here are some more photos from Expedition Bigfoot, a museum in Blue Ridge.
National Tick Collection The U.S. National Tick collection is one of the largest curated tick collections in the World, if not the largest. It belongs to the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) and has been housed at Georgia Southern University since 1990. The collection contains specimens from all continents, most of the approximately 860 known species of ticks, and a quarter of the primary tick types.
GBI Museum What is that?
GBI Museum You'll find these in the GBI Crime Lab Museum in Decatur. (Nelson Hicks)
GBI Museum It's housed in the lobby of GBI headquarters and houses a number of items that have been submitted to the crime lab over the years in the course of investigations. (Nelson Hicks)
GBI Crime Lab Museum Monkey from Mars The most famous item in the collection is this "Man From Outer Space." But it's no man and it's not a monkey from Mars either. In 1953, when there was all kinds of talk about UFOs, three men took a dead monkey, removed its tail, covered it in hair remover, colored it and left it on a Cobb County road. They burned a circle in the pavement around it. (Nelson Hicks)
GBI Museum But it's not the only thing you'll see on a visit. (Nelson Hicks)
GBI Museum there are counterfeit goods... (Nelson Hicks)
GBI Museum and all kinds of interesting items! (Nelson Hicks)
GBI Museum Here are some more photos from the GBI Museum in Decatur. (Nelson Hicks)
GBI Museum Here are some more photos from the GBI Museum in Decatur. (Nelson Hicks)
GBI Museum Here are some more photos from the GBI Museum in Decatur. (Nelson Hicks)
Who loves waffles?
Then you need to check out the Waffle House Museum.
Located on the site where Joe Rogers, Sr. and Tom Forkner opened the first Waffle House restaurant in Avondale Estates, Ga., the Waffle House Museum captures the spirit and history of the 24-hour chain.
After the original Waffle House opened, there were no plans for another unit, but the first restaurant established the Waffle House tradition of providing the friendliest service in town. Unit 2 was opened two years later.
The Waffle House Museum features all kinds of items from the restaurant's history. Yes, there was once an all you can eat menu at the Waffle House.
The museum includes a re-creation of that first restaurant Joe and Tom opened on Labor Day, 1955, and is filled with more than 60 years of Waffle House memorabilia.
The relationship between the founders began when Joe Rogers, Sr. bought a house from Tom Forkner in Avondale Estates, in 1949.
Check out https://www.wafflehouse.com/museum/ for more.
School bus graveyard Where do school buses go to die?
School Bus Graveyard The School Bus Graveyard of course! (Nelson Hicks)
School Bus Graveyard The School Bus Graveyard is in Alto. (Nelson Hicks)
School Bus Graveyard Alonzo Wade opened a used cars and parts business in Alto in 1959. The business sold buses as well as bus parts. However, vandals started breaking in to steal the radiators out of the buses. That led Wade to construct a makeshift fence using the buses themselves. (Nelson Hicks)
School Bus Graveyard Fast forward 50 years, unwanted visitors started painting inappropriate things on the bus fence. Walter Wade, who now runs the business, called in some artists to paint over the graffiti and thus, the School Bus Graveyard was born. (Nelson Hicks)
School Bus Graveyard “It’s amazing,” Walter Wade told WSBTV.com’s Nelson Hicks. “There’s a lot of things I’ve done in my life, but I’m never been able to (paint) like that. I just get a kick out of watching the people’s reactions. We’ve had people from a lot of states here, other countries, just to stop by to look because they’ve seen pictures of it. It’s totally different when you stop and look at it up close and personal.” (Nelson Hicks)
School Bus Graveyard Now, artists gather from time to time with Wade’s approval to paint. There’s more than 100 buses and some cars, too. Visitors will find everything painted across the vehicles from Homer Simpson to killer ants to PAC-MAN to Waldo. (Nelson Hicks)
School Bus Graveyard Walking around the outside of the School Bus Graveyard is free and many people do it everyday. Inside tours cost a few dollars. Either way, it’s a great afternoon away from home. (Nelson Hicks)
School Bus Graveyard Here are some more photos from the School Bus Graveyard in Alto. (Nelson Hicks)
School Bus Graveyard Here are some more photos from the School Bus Graveyard in Alto. (Nelson Hicks)
Loudermilk Boarding House & Everything Elvis Museum This is the Loudermilk Boarding House & Everything Elvis Museum. (Nelson Hicks)
It's in Cornelia.
Loudermilk Boarding House & Everything Elvis Museum And while it does celebrate Elvis, it does so with a lot of unusual items. (Nelson Hicks)
Loudermilk Boarding House & Everything Elvis Museum It's home to Joni Mabe's Panoramic Encyclopedia of Everything Elvis, the World's Largest and Most Unique Elvis Panoramic Encyclopedia. (Nelson Hicks)
Loudermilk Boarding House & Everything Elvis Museum That might be Elvis' toenail. Mabe found it in the carpet on a trip to Graceland. (Nelson Hicks)
Loudermilk Boarding House & Everything Elvis Museum And that's Elvis' wart that a doctor removed. (Nelson Hicks)
Loudermilk Boarding House & Everything Elvis Museum Check out https://www.facebook.com/Loudermilk-Boarding-House-Museum-151115054923474/ for more. (Nelson Hicks)
See Elvis' Wart, Maybe His Toenail, Other Memorabilia At The Elvis Museum
Lunchbox Museum in Columbus Did you carry a lunchbox to school? (Nelson Hicks)
Lunchbox Museum in Columbus If you carried a lunchbox to school, chances are, there's one just like it here... (Nelson Hicks)
Lunchbox Museum in Columbus at the Lunchbox Museum in Columbus, Ga. (Nelson Hicks)
Lunchbox Museum in Columbus Allen Woodall is the man behind the museum. He started collecting lunchboxes nearly 40 years ago when he was at a flea market in the Atlanta area. Woodall saw a "Dick Tracy" and "Green Hornet" lunchbox at the flea market. He thought they looked cool, and his collection began. (Nelson Hicks)
Lunchbox Museum in Columbus Woodall didn't carry a lunchbox to school growing up. He always used brown bags. But he did say that the lunchboxes reminded him of shows he used to listen to on the radio. (Nelson Hicks)
Lunchbox Museum in Columbus, Ga. Check out http://www.lunchboxmuseum.com/ for more. (Nelson Hicks)
The Georgia Rural Telephone Museum in Leslie, Georgia, is home to the largest collection of antique telephones and telephone memorabilia in the world.
