Things to do in Chamblee

You shouldn't miss a visit to this wildly popular attraction which from the outside looks like the bow of a ship and inside has more than 80,000 animals to see. The aquarium's Ocean Voyager Gallery is the world's largest indoor marine exhibit holding 27 million litres of salt water which provides plenty of opportunities to study life underwater. Walk through the clear tunnel in the middle and enjoy the sight of whale sharks, manta rays, grouper fish, sharks and stingrays swimming above you. There's much more than fish and mammals on display though: there are also penguins, sea lions, sea otters, river otters, sea turtles, and giant octopus, too.

Visit the State Farm Arena in the heart of downtown Atlanta to mingle with basketball fans. Or watch an ice hockey game or figure ice skating competition, if that’s more your thing. And how about coming here for a concert? There are about 200 events to choose from each year, which means there is something for everyone.

Indulge your daredevil side at Six Flags Over Georgia. Austell’s sprawling theme park has more than a dozen exciting roller coasters, water slides and thrill rides.

What was once an unattractive part of downtown is now one of Atlanta's most appealing public areas which attracts more than 3 million visitors a year. A legacy of the 1996 Olympic Games, the 9-hectare park was originally built to celebrate the Games being held in Atlanta, as well as to revitalise a part of town that had long been forgotten. The park is bound by several of the city's major attractions including the Georgia Aquarium, the CNN Center and the World of Coca-Cola.

This huge, multifaceted park located 25 kilometres from Atlanta is based around a quartz monzonite dome monadnock, to give it its full name, the largest exposed granite outcropping on Earth. Aside from this landmark attraction which rises 514 metres above sea level and which is worth the visit alone, there's the Confederate Memorial carved onto the north face of the mountain, which is the world's largest sculpture, measuring 27 metres by 58 metres. The Civil War memorial depicts three Southern heroes: President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson and was started in 1923 but not finished until 1972.