Places amtneer Wants to Go

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

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

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

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

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The simple gravesite of a Romany clan leader is dotted with offerings, including cans of her favorite drink, Crush orange soda.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.