40. Polaris

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Polaris
Photograph by Raymond McCrea Jones

This spaceship-shaped cocktail lounge isn’t downtown’s only revolving rooftop hotel bar—just the most badass. The refurbished Polaris ably captures a midcentury coolness (it first opened in 1967), and the setting is at once panoramic and intimate. Hyatt Regency, 265 Peachtree Street, 404-460-6425, hyattregencyatlanta.com

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