An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

World's largest college campus includes a wildlife sanctuary and a former movie set on more than 28,000 acres.

This labyrinth was designed to help visitors focus and meditate.

Tombstone of a dog that greeted passengers at the Southern Railway Depot.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

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

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

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

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," and outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.