Unlike many of The Walking Dead's shooting locales, the Cobb Centre has been utilized in a number of additional films. Since it opened, the theater has welcomed acts as diverse as Harry Connick Jr., Demi Lovato, and ABBA if you happen to be in Atlanta come Christmas time, you can pop into the Centre's production of The Nutcracker. Williams Theatre, a 2,750-seat venue that was built specifically to lure Broadway touring companies.

The Cobb Centre houses a 10,000-square-foot ballroom, which is available for rentals if you wish to occupy a piece of Walking Dead history on your special occasion, as well as the John A. The building's asymmetrical roof and Lincoln Center-inspired glass facade is the perfect match for the icy modernity that the CDC facility was to convey. Join us as EW traverses the iconic real-life locations where The Walking Dead was filmed, in and around Senoia.ĭuring the final two episodes of the first season, the CDC headquarters, where Rick ( Andrew Lincoln) sought refuge and discovered the truth about the infection, was filmed at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, appropriately situated in northwest Atlanta's Cobb County near a village called Vinings that runs along the Chattahoochee River. However, much of Senoia (especially Main Street) has been utilized by The Walking Dead for various scenes across a number of seasons, and the town now operates a cottage industry of zombified tourism. Most of The Walking Dead, especially its interiors, are lensed at Raleigh Studios in Senoia, which is unfortunately not open to the public. So close are the locations used for the two disparate societies that in the background of many Alexandria-set scenes, both Woodbury's water tower and the apartment building of David Morrissey's fearsome Governor can be glimpsed.

On The Walking Dead, the town stood in for the fortified city of Woodbury in season 3, as well as the walled-off Alexandria safe zone, where Senoia displayed its acting range by depicting a city in Virginia. Currently, Senoia greets countless tourists each year who are eager to see the sights of AMC's signature series for themselves. It also single-handedly revived some of the smaller cities in the region such as Senoia (pronounced Suh-NOY), Ga., which has grown faster than 95 percent of similarly sized US cities, having expanded by 188 percent since 2000. The Walking Dead was vital in convincing a great deal of the film and TV production industry to move operations to Georgia.

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