Weird day trips from Atlanta

The strangest Atlanta finds are often a short drive out. These 7 day trips — Old Car City USA, Pasaquan, Rock Eagle Effigy Mound and more — are each hand-vetted and sourced: ghost towns, hot-spring soaks, roadside oddities, and odd small-town museums worth the gas. A weird day trip is its own kind of date.

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Old Car City USA A 34-acre former parts-salvage yard turned self-described "museum of junked cars": roughly 4,000-4,400 Americ… White, GA (Bartow County)
Pasaquan Eddie Owens Martin — a Times Square street psychic who renamed himself St. EOM — spent three decades single-h… Buena Vista, GA (Marion County)
Rock Eagle Effigy Mound A prehistoric bird effigy built from thousands of hand-placed quartzite stones — 102 feet long, 120 feet wing… Eatonton, GA (Putnam County)
Fort Mountain Ancient Stone Wall An 855-to-885-foot zigzag wall of stacked stone runs along Fort Mountain's highest ridge, its 19-to-29 pits a… Chatsworth, GA (Murray County)
Paradise Garden (Howard Finster) Baptist preacher-turned-visionary artist Howard Finster spent decades packing four acres with a five-story ha… Summerville, GA (Chattooga County)
Hammered Heart Forge On a working 50-acre horse farm in Sharpsburg, sculptor-blacksmith Michael Sebacher caps his Friday-night cou… Sharpsburg (near Newnan)
Tellus Science Museum — Bentley Planetarium & Observatory About 45 miles north of downtown, this Smithsonian-affiliated museum pairs a Bentley Planetarium dome with it… Cartersville (White, GA)