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

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

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

Abstract marble carving for an 8.5-pound rock.

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

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

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

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

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

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

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

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

Oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

Shrine to Japanese water-goblins, complete with their preserved body parts.

After a profound show of devotion for his master, a dog becomes the symbol of loyalty for an entire nation.

Japan's corrupt-mental-institution themed restaurant offers diners a chance to eat inside of filthy cells.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A 20-meter (65-foot) robot towers over Tokyo Bay.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Here lies Lilly E. Gray, an alleged "victim of the beast," but the reason long remained a mystery.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.