Alligator Mural
🟢 Open 24 hours
Massive inverted alligator mural by Belgian street artist ROA, painted in 2011 as part of the Living Walls project, with the crocodile's tail curling up the fire escape of a historic Mitchell Street building.
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Fairlie-Poplar District
🟢 Open 24 hours
Historic neighborhood developed in the late 1800s as Atlanta's original business district, known for its Flatiron Building (predating New York's by five years), revitalized with artist studios, galleries, restaurants, and gas-lit streetlamps.
Founders Green
🟢 Open until 10:00 PM
South Downtown's half-acre gathering lawn at 110 Broad — a former parking lot reborn as the neighborhood's front yard, with a stage, seating, and flexible green space for concerts, movie nights, watch parties, and free community yoga. Named for Atlanta's founders, on the blocks where the city's original commercial district began. Steps from El Tesoro and the Broad Street storefronts.
Fountain of Rings
🟢 Open until 11:00 PM
The world's largest interactive fountain featuring the Olympic Ring symbol, with 251 computer-controlled water jets shooting 12 to 35 feet high, synchronized to music and LED lighting in four daily shows year-round.
Georgia International Plaza
🟢 Open 24 hours
This 6-acre park above a parking deck features multiple decorative towers & a gymnast sculpture.
International Peace Fountain
🟢 Open until 11:00 PM
Cascading waterfall feature dedicated to the civil rights movement in a redeveloped city park.
Olympic Rings
🟢 Open until 11:00 PM
An 11-foot-tall, 5,000-pound interactive sculpture of the five Olympic rings near Centennial Olympic Park's east entrance, installed in 2018 as a selfie-ready tribute to Atlanta's 1996 Olympic legacy.