I'm taking a girl to Atlanta tomorrow for an evening thing and need cheap/free things to do during the day. If anyone here is familiar with visiting Atlanta, can you recommend some neat stuff for us to do?
Lots of foodie type places have sprung up in the last 5 years.
There's the Aquarium, a decent zoo, fernbank...
>>18447014
I'm from metro Atlanta so I could give you a couple of basic options though I'm not sure just how cheap you're talking here. Also, are you talking about just downtown Atlanta or the surrounding area? Atlanta's fairly huge in terms of area.
Anyways here's just a list I guess (including the suggestions of >>18447038:
Georgia Aquarium (largest in the world)
Piedmont/Centennial Park
Atlanta Zoo
The SkyView (literally a giant ferris wheel)
The Atlanta Botanical Garden
The Body Exhibit in Atlantic Station
Atlantic Station in general is a pretty cool shopping place to hang out
Stone Mountain
Underground Atlanta (kind of sketch now)
World of Coke (I liked it as a kid lol)
Ponce Market (a huge refurbished factory turned into a hipster shopping place- they have alcoholic popsicles there)
Bicycling on the Atlanta Beltline
Food Truck Park (super small, maybe like 4 actual food trucks, it's meh)
The Varsity is an icon although the food is meh.
Little Five points is kind of cool during the daytime. Super sketch at night. It's a super hipster area near the Botanical Gardens. If you go there, you should check out the Vortex. Awesome burgers.
Lenox Square Mall is extremely nice. I think they have that cupcake vending machine there.
That's about it as far as I can think of off the top of my head. The cheapest are obviously the parks and areas where you can just walk around like Atlantic Station or Little Five Points. The Botanical Garden is pretty nice and not too bad if I remember. The aquarium is like $20 bucks but I suggest the Body Exhibit. It's just cool as shit. Maybe she'd appreciate that type of stuff.
Oh and the High Museum is pretty neat. They have an Andy Warhol exhibition going on right now. Hope that helped anon.