PHOTOS: Georgia's odd, unusual museums

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Swan House at Atlanta History Center Georgia is home to lots of great museums...like the Swan House at the Atlanta History Center. (Jason Hales/Atlanta History Center)

Uncle Remus Museum "Who knew a boy born in Eatonton, GA December 9th, 1845 would go on to become one of America's finest writers," the museum's website states. "From a young age Joel was surrounded by literature and gained experience while working as a printer's devil at Turnwold Plantation in East Eatonton. During Joel's time at Turnwold he experienced the stories and language of the plantation's slaves. It was these experiences that would shape Joel's famous Uncle Remus stories." (Nelson Hicks)

National Tick Collection The U.S. National Tick collection is one of the largest curated tick collections in the World, if not the largest. It belongs to the U.S. National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian Institution) and has been housed at Georgia Southern University since 1990. The collection contains specimens from all continents, most of the approximately 860 known species of ticks, and a quarter of the primary tick types.

GBI Crime Lab Museum Monkey from Mars The most famous item in the collection is this "Man From Outer Space." But it's no man and it's not a monkey from Mars either. In 1953, when there was all kinds of talk about UFOs, three men took a dead monkey, removed its tail, covered it in hair remover, colored it and left it on a Cobb County road. They burned a circle in the pavement around it. (Nelson Hicks)

School Bus Graveyard “It’s amazing,” Walter Wade told WSBTV.com’s Nelson Hicks. “There’s a lot of things I’ve done in my life, but I’m never been able to (paint) like that. I just get a kick out of watching the people’s reactions. We’ve had people from a lot of states here, other countries, just to stop by to look because they’ve seen pictures of it. It’s totally different when you stop and look at it up close and personal.” (Nelson Hicks)

April 08, 2024 at 9:17 am EDT

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