A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

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

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.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

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

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.

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

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

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

Permanent exhibit reminds visitors of the Exxon Valdez.

The remains of the first saint from Alaska in the Russian Orthodox Church.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

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

Open day and night, a church with three pews and Bibles.

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

A suburban street in Anchorage doubles as a runway, and each home has its own airplane hangar.

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

The facade of this relic from the Klondike gold rush is decorated with over 8,800 pieces of driftwood.

Research missiles and rainbow auroras at the world's largest land-based rocket range.

Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.