The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

A local dive where religious kitsch, Southern identity, and queer culture collide.

This stone is a marker of one millionaire's personal vendetta against gravity.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

What better place to take a seat?

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

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

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

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

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

This space rock fragment is one of the only meteors to have ever struck a human.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

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

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

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

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

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

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