Georgia Top Things To See
• Pay your respects to an icon at the Tomb of Martin Luther King (website: www.nps.gov/malu), located at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta.
• Visit Madison, an historic town spared from ruin during Sherman's ‘March to the Sea' in 1864 (website: www.madisonga.org/main.htm).
• Travel to the Pine Mountain area (website: www.pinemountain.org), noted for its Callaway Gardens and for President Franklin D Roosevelt's Little White House (website: www.fdr-littlewhitehouse.org) at Warm Springs.
• Watch an Atlanta Braves (website: www.braves.mlb.com) major league baseball game at Turner Field in Atlanta.
• Explore historic Savannah, the USA's first planned city rich with Southern antebellum charm (website: www.savannahgeorgia.com). Much of Savannah's original beauty remains, with over a thousand historically important buildings, including the superb Regency-style Owens-Thomas House and Georgian Davenport House (website: www.davenporthousemuseum.org).
• Encounter Fort Pulaski (website: www.nps.gov/fopu), one of Savannah's five forts open to the public, named after the Polish hero of the American Revolution.
• Journey through Waycross, one of three gateways to the Okefenokee Swamp (website: www.swampgeorgia.com), one of the country's most beautiful wilderness areas. The swamp is a refuge of exotic plant and animal life, including alligators.
• Witness golfing history during the Masters Golf Tournament (website: www.masters.org), held at the Augusta National Golf Club every year.
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