Ponce City Market
Ponce City Market

Travel + Leisure magazine released a list of 20 of the World’s Coolest New Tourist Attractions and Atlanta’s still-under-constuction Ponce City Market made the cut.

Here’s what the magazine had to say: Just off the BeltLine—Atlanta’s network of trails and parks that follow former rail lines—a $250 million redevelopment is turning a massive Sears, Roebuck & Co. into a multiuse beacon of regenerative cool. Openings this fall will include a Central Food Hall modeled after NYC’s Chelsea Market, retail, and an expansive rooftop garden, with mini-golf come spring 2015, as well as offices and residences. There’ll even be a BeltLine-accessible outdoor bar made from a repurposed boxcar. 

Some of the other must-see attractions are the Glacier Skywalk in the Canadian Rockies, Imperial War Museum in London, Musée Picasso in Paris and One World Trade Center and the 9/11 Museum in New York City. See the full list at this link.

Collin Kelley is the executive editor of Atlanta Intown, Georgia Voice, and the Rough Draft newsletter. He has been a journalist for nearly four decades and is also an award-winning poet and novelist.