The Georgia Aquarium opened it 2005. It sits in the middle of Atlanta, sharing a block with the National Center for Civil and Human Rights and the World of Coca-Cola. The Centennial Olympic Park is directly south of them. You can easily spend a day exploring the area.

Where the New England Aquarium is compact, the Georgia Aquarium is sprawling. It has to be as it provides a home to the largest fish in the world: whale sharks. Taroko and Yushan were rescued from a seafood market and lived at the aquarium for nearly two decades. I had the honor of visiting them both a few months before Taroko sadly passed.

Shark fans will also appreciate a lovely assortment of black tip reef sharks, sandbar, silvertips, tigers and great hammerheads.

(I also crawled through some penguin habitat tunnels that ended up being rather terrifying.)

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