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Get your fill of nature and its greatest creatures at the Cochran Mill Nature Center. The center provides education on a variety of topics involving animals, their habitats, and our environment. Cochran Mill also aids with wildlife rehabilitation, taking in injured animals and nursing them back to health when possible, and permanently housing them when unable to return to the wild. If you're a true animal and nature lover looking for an experience with the wild outside of the zoo, you won't want to pass up a visit to this attraction.

Head to the Delta Classic Chastain Park Amphitheater to catch a performance by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The ASO is in its 66th season and is considered to be one of America's premiere orchestra assemblies - you won't want to miss hearing live music from this talented group of performers. The amphitheater also hosts other performances by artists like Darius Rucker, Steve Miller Band, and Steely Dan.

Art connoisseurs and crafty people from all around have made the Atlanta Dogwood Festival a tradition in the city for the past 70 years. The festival takes place in Piedmont Park every spring, and features a variety of art forms. While strolling through the festival, you'll see booth after booth of sculptures, paintings, pottery, jewelry, photography and plenty more - including food. Don't miss out on live music, good food, and plenty of opportunities to buy and create art.