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

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

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

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

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

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

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

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

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

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

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

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

This former prison is an Art Deco masterpiece with a past full of civil rights flashpoints.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

The haunting remains of a failed housing development can still be found behind the big box stores that were to anchor them.

A museum preserving one company’s history of preserving food.

The only runway directly into the magic kingdom has been closed since 1972, but it still sings to you if you drive fast enough.

Gutted airplanes slowly decay in a Florida field.

This aluminum airplane pays homage to the Flying Tigers of World War II.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

This facility, now a museum, once housed and trained U.S. Army Air Force pilots who flew during the Allied invasion of Normandy.