In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

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

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

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

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.

A delightfully quirky blend of oddities spread throughout an old 1920s bank.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Stepping inside this coffee shop is a journey through time.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Mountain known by the Tillamook Tribe as "the place of the supreme deity."

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.