Atlanta doesn’t lack for city pride, so it always stings when an otherwise reasonable person finds fault with one of our city’s jewels. The reviewers on Yelp can be a finicky lot, as Mother Jones discovered last month. Inspired by that magazine’s critical tour of our country’s national parks, we’ve assembled some rather tart takes on our own public spaces.

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Oakland Cemetery

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Credit: Brandon Camp / Special

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Krog Street tunnel

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Credit: Pete Corson

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Credit: Pete Corson

Goat Farm

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Credit: AJC staff

Stone Mountain

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Grant Park

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State Capitol

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Credit: JOHN SPINK / AJC

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Piedmont Park

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Bonus: The Piedmont Park robot bathroom

The self-cleaning bathroom at the park’s Charles Allen Drive entrance has nearly two dozen reviews all in itself. Here are a few of the negative ones.

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