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

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

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

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

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

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

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

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

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.

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

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

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

Constructed from bricks salvaged from a former dormitory destroyed in a fire.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

This house designed by Frank Lloyd and Louis Sullivan was destroyed twice and reconstructed to near original condition.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.