So, you’re coming to town for a soccer game, eh? Well, sure, but that’s only a few hours of your time. What if you’re coming for a couple or few days, don’t know much about the city? Well, let’s give you a few choices and ideas on what to do, where to go, how to hang, all that jazz.





Let’s Start with the Touristy Stuff

Luckily for you guys, right around the Dome is a lot of touristy stuff if that’s what you’re into. And admittedly, some of it isn’t bad.

– Aquarium. It’s the biggest in the world, maybe you’ve heard of it. Check out the giant underwater tunnel while sharks swim over your head, or maybe the 25 foot tall panoramic glass wall to fully take in the scale of the whale sharks. Personally, I like the penguins.

– World of Coke. It’s a museum about one of the 3 works everyone in the world knows, or at least the product carrying that word as it’s name. It’s not a bad time, and the big draw is trying the cokes from all around the world.

– College Football Hall of Fame. If you have any interest in college football, I can highly recommend taking a few hours to check this place out. It’s a really good museum, which quality interactive stuff strewn about.

– CNN Tour. I don’t know if I know anybody that’s done this not as a school field trip, but, there’s always a crowd at these things. Maybe it’ll interest you.

– High Museum of Art. Personal favorite of mine, and I consider the best part of the fabulous Woodruff Arts Center. Current exhibits include the 100 year celebration of the Coke Bottle (#peakatl), although I always make sure to show people coming with me for the first time the room dedicated to Howard Finster’s Paradise Gardens.

– MLK, Jr. Center. The internment site of Martin Luther King, Jr. and now a museum to his efforts in the Civil Rights Movement. See his birth home, as well as Ebenezer Baptist Church, the pulpit from which he began making his name.

– Center for Civil and Human Rights. A newly opened museum, I personally haven’t been yet, but everyone I know that has said they were incredibly moved. Also, the night before, local charity and friends of ours Soccer in the Streets will be hosting an event there the night before the game, which will center on diversity in soccer, and will have a panel including Brianna Scurry, Brad Freidel, and Stuart Sharp, head coach of the US Paralympic Soccer team.





If you wanna do multiples of these and plan to be in town for a few days, check out City Pass, which offers discounts for buying multiple tickets at once.





Bit more “cool” stuff

– Krog Street Market. Local food market. Lots of restaurants, a bar or two, all in a thriving part of Atlanta right on the Beltline. Personal favorite is Fred’s Meat and Bread, and the local chocolate bars smell amazing.

– Little Five Points. Coming to the Night Before Party? You’ll already be coming here then! Kind of known as the hippie part of town, there’s no shortage of solid bars and odd sorts of shops. Personal favorites of mine include Brewhouse, our chapter bar, and the Porter. I’d challenge you to try all their beers, but they have a list over 800 long, and you should probably move here to do that.

– That Stereotypical Shot of the Skyline You See Everywhere, Including the Walking Dead famous poster. Prove you’ve been to Atlanta by taking a picture of the skyline. In all honestly, it’s a good view, especially at sunrise, but it is a bit cliche. My favorite skyline spot? Top of the GPB parking deck in Midtown, if that is something that interests you.

– Oakland Cemetery. Honestly something really neat. The final resting place of golf legend Bobby Jones, author Margaret Mitchell, plus multiple well known Atlanta mayors. Beautiful mausoleums and memorials with the downtown skyline watching over them. An awesome sunset spot.

– The Corner of Headland and Delowe. A good thing got started here a couple years ago.

Don’t Go Here but This Dude is A Total Knob and I want you all to laugh at him

– The Corey Smokestack. Chances are if you drive on the Connector (our stretch through the city were two major interstates connect for a few miles), you’ll see this big smokestack. The dude that owns it put this billboard on it, displaying his company’s name, and said it would be up there with the Gateway Arch and Statue of Liberty. Bump that noise.





Jeffery Webb’s Seized Houses

Not kidding at all. Former Concacaf President Jeffery Webb’s wife is from Atlanta, and he had three properties seized in the area as part of his charges from Loretta Lynch and the DOJ. If you wanna go and check them out for some strange reason…

– 2116 Adel Drive, Loganville, GA. My personal favorite of the three. I checked it out. Real nice pool, plus soccer goals already set up in the back yard.

– 5119 Madeline Place, Stone Mountain, GA. Just a condo, nothing special.

– 7222 Lake Crossing, Stone Mountain, GA. Nice suburban place. 5 bedrooms, 2900 sq ft. Check it out if you’re in the market.









Get out there and check out our city. We think it’s pretty grand and you’re likely to find something to really like about it. Be it Piedmont Park, catching a Braves game (before the move out to the suburbs in a couple years), or just walk through the area around your hotel. Atlanta is here to welcome you, take advantage.





EDIT: FREE FUTURE CONCERT MONDAY NIGHT

For those of you getting in town real early tonight, Future is holding a free concert at Masquerade Music Park on the east side, a couple of miles from Brewhouse, tonight, 7.20. Starts at 9 pm.