Walking Dead Thrillist Stop #2: The Creepy Hospital

If you are ever near 2352 Bolton Road in Atlanta, you'd best bring some hand sanitizer and a big ol' dog. 

This is another first season location - first episode, actually. Remember when Rick wakes up in a hospital?  And bangs out a metal door and discovers utter mayhem? And it looks like this?

While it is pretty amazing for a Walking Dead nerd to visit this site, this location is indeed VERY CREEPY.   I was expecting it to be a, you know, occupied building.  It is in fact abandoned, and silent, and filled with stained mattresses, weeds, and probably some Ebola-tipped needles.  This is probably not a place to take your kiddos.

Here, you can witness the aforementioned mattress:

 

Veeeeery cautiously, we approached so I could get a money shot:

"Look at me, I'm Rick!"

And we checked out the grounds, thankfully free of corpses:

And then we skadaddled, for upon our backs we felt the watchful eyes of many a street bum, wishing us gone.  Did I mention there's a wooden hill facing all of this?  A perfect place for transient murderers to prey on dumb tourists. 

But still, pretty cool!

Thrillist Stop #1: The Center for Disease Control!

The very first TWD site we visited whilst in Atlanta was that of season one's Center for Disease Control. Because what spells "vacation" like going out of your way to visit a fake Center for Disease Control? Upon realizing that we were actually somewhat close to its location (2800 Cobb Galleria Parkway), we gave in to temptation and pulled over.

You may remember this grim view:

And of course, it all ended with a kaboom:

And so, here am I, pretending to race away from the kaboom:  

 

What you cannot see is the Toys R' Us directly to its left.