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

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

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

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

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

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.

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

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

A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.