One-tank trip: Albany, Ga.

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Albany, Georgia: Home to a life-size likeness of Ray Charles, the Albany Civil Rights Institute Museum, the Flint RiverQuarium and wild animals at the Parks at Chehaw. Also the Albany Museum of Art and the Thronateeska Heritage Center and its Wetherbee Planetarium.

ALBANY'S NATIVE son, Ray Charles, is commemorated by a statue at his namesake plaza in Riverfront Park. The musical giant lived in the city for about a year before his family moved to Florida.

RIVERFRONT PARK is also home to a giant of a different sort, the huge turtle playspot at Turtle Grove.

THE CIVIL rights movement of the 1960s is relived by the Freedom Singers (Rutha Mae Harris, Angie Gibson) at Old Mount Zion Church.

THE "BLUE HOLE" at the Flint RiverQuarium re-creates a natural river spring.

THIS BLACK rhino has a home with other wildlife at the Parks at Chehaw.

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ALBANY'S NATIVE son, Ray Charles, is commemorated by a statue at his namesake plaza in Riverfront Park. The musical giant lived in the city for about a year before his family moved to Florida.

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