Places worth the detour in Georgia
Detourmap lists 78 places in Georgia, United States, across 2 kinds of detour. Best known: Stone Mountain. 70 rank as little-known. Click any card to open it on the map.
- Places
- 78
- Oldest
- Callaway Plantation 1785
- Little known
- 70 of 78
- Share of United States
- 2%
Georgia 78
All 78, best known first.
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7.Little White House
Archaeological · 20th century · Notable
House located in the Historic District of Warm Springs, Georgia, United States
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11.Ocmulgee Mounds National Historical Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
National monument in the United States
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21.Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Heritage site in Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
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30.Toccoa Falls
Nature · Hidden gem
Waterfall on the campus of Toccoa Falls College in Stephens County, Georgia
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34.Kolomoki Mounds State Park
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Archaeological site and state park in Blakely, Georgia, USA
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36.Ebenezer
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Ghost town and historic district in Effingham County, Georgia, United States
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38.Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Park preserving the battlefields of Chickamauga and Chattanooga in Fort Oglethrope, Georgia, USA
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39.Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Wildlife refuge in Georgia, USA
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40.Bond Swamp National Wildlife Refuge
Nature · 20th century · Hidden gem
Park in Georgia, United States of America, United States of America
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41.Consolidated Gold Mine
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic site and former gold mine in Dahlonega, Georgia, USA
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44.Mercer House
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic house museum in Savannah, Georgia, USA
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45.Chieftains Museum
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Cherokee museum in Rome, Georgia, USA
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47.Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic mansion in Savannah, Georgia, United States
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54.Bulloch Hall
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic home in Roswell, Georgia, United States of America
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55.Callaway Plantation
Archaeological · 18th century · Hidden gem
Historic house museum and plantation in Washington, Georgia, United States of America
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58.Herndon Home
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Archive organization in Atlanta, United States
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59.Davenport House
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Building in Savannah, Georgia, United States
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60.Joel Chandler Harris House
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Historic house museum in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, built in 1870 in Queen Anne style
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61.Lapham–Patterson House
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic house in Thomasville, Georgia, USA
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62.Andrew Low House
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Historic house and museum in Savannah, Georgia, United States
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63.Old Governor's Mansion
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Museum in Milledgeville, Georgia, USA
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64.Rhodes Hall
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic house located in Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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65.Robert Toombs House State Historic Site
Archaeological · 20th century · Hidden gem
Historic property in Washington, Georgia, United States
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66.Sorrel–Weed House
Archaeological · 19th century · Hidden gem
Heritage site in Savannah, Georgia, USA
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68.Henry W. Grady House
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic house museum and National Historic Landmark in Athens, Georgia
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70.Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home
Archaeological · Hidden gem
Historic museum house of Flannery O'Connor's childhood home
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72.Eisenhower Tree
Nature · Hidden gem
Loblolly pine formerly located on the Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, GA, US
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76.Minnehaha Falls
Nature · Hidden gem
Cascade waterfalls on Falls Creek in Rabun County, Georgia, United States
Elsewhere in United States
Questions about this page
What is the best known place worth the detour in Georgia?
Stone Mountain. Mountain and state park in Georgia, United States. It leads because more Wikipedia language editions cover it than any other place here.
How many places worth the detour are there in Georgia?
78: 40 archaeological & historic sites and 38 nature & landscapes. 70 of them are little known — they carry a Wikipedia article in only a handful of languages.
What is the oldest place on this map in Georgia?
Callaway Plantation, dated to 1785. 23 of the 78 places here carry a founding date at all.
What counts as Georgia here?
Wikidata's own administrative boundary: a place is in Georgia if its located in the administrative territorial entity chain leads there. Georgia is a first-level division of United States, the same level as a state or a province.
Where does this information come from?
Every place is drawn from Wikidata (CC0), with photographs from Wikimedia Commons and a link to its English Wikipedia article. Selection is deterministic: a place is here because Wikidata files it under one of the classes this atlas carries and it has coordinates, a photo and an article. Nothing is written or chosen by an AI, and the ranking is simply how many Wikipedia language editions cover a place.
























































