Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

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

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

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

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

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

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

A former taxidermist has turned his old shop into a folk art mecca.

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

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

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

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

This popular fishing spot at the outflow of a 4.5-mile long hydroelectric tunnel sports a jetty literally made out of classic cars.

Clean, cold drinking water flows from a nondescript pipe in a roadside rock face.

A whale of a public art display towers atop Juneau's cruise ship dock.

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

The only house built with a turret, crenellations, and a moat in Palmer, Alaska.

The sculpture's largest spire points directly toward the North Star.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

At 238 feet above the bottom of a gorge this span is known as the biggest thrill on the road to McCarthy.

During the summer, surfers in Alaska take advantage of this inlet’s unusual water patterns.