Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

At one of the nation’s longest-running professional theaters, the audience used to barter for tickets with produce and livestock.

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

This research center for rare prosimians is studying how they sleep to help prolong human life.

This too-low North Carolina railroad trestle is still a notorious big rig executioner.