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Mobile Medical Museum

Mobile, Alabama

Mobile Medical Museum

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

African Village in America. (Wikimedia Commons)

Birmingham, Alabama

African Village in America

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

Mr. Trawick nut, 'selling' boiled peanuts

Dothan, Alabama

Peanuts on Parade

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Rickwood Caverns

Warrior, Alabama

Rickwood Caverns

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

Hank Williams' Death Car. (Creative Commons)

Montgomery, Alabama

Hank Williams' Death Car

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

Sun porch.

Montgomery, Alabama

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

The Museum Of Wonder

Seale, Alabama

The Museum Of Wonder

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

The Drive-Thru is next to the Museum of Wonder.

Seale, Alabama

The Drive-Thru Museum

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

First glimps of spectre through the styrofoam trees

Millbrook, Alabama

Spectre Set Ruins

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

Regular fireflies. Just use your imagination.

Hendersonville, North Carolina

Blue Ghost Fireflies

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Mayor Stubbs

Talkeetna, Alaska

The Cat Mayor of Talkeetna

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

A 1933 Auburn, one of the fastest cars of its era.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum

The collection includes seven one-of-a-kind automobiles, vintage fashion, and more.

The summit of Mt. Katmai, a volcano six miles away from Novarupta, collapsed when the nearby eruption drained its magma chamber.

King Salmon, Alaska

Valley of 10,000 Smokes

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

Eldred Rock Lighthouse from an Alaska State Ferry.

Alaska

Eldred Rock Lighthouse

The oldest original lighthouse in Alaska that was born out of a tragic shipwreck.

The Coldfoot Post Office, where your bartender might be the postmaster.

Coldfoot, Alaska

Coldfoot Camp

The northernmost truck stop in the United States.

Artifacts and information inside the museum.

Juneau, Alaska

Last Chance Mining Museum

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

Archaeologists working on the dig site.

Fairbanks, Alaska

Xaasaa Cheege Ts'eniin (Upward Sun River Mouth Child)

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

Chevak-ish style dolls, unknown maker

Juneau, Alaska

Aunt Claudia's Dolls, a Museum

One toy collector's legacy of hundreds of unique items includes the most diverse display of northern indigenous dolls.

Alaska Resources Library and Information Services

Anchorage, Alaska

Alaska Resources Library and Information Services

This Alaska library may be the only one in the country that allows you to check out pieces of taxidermy.

Hammer Museum

Haines, Alaska

Hammer Museum

A museum devoted entirely to hammers has more than 1,400 items on display dating back to the Romans.

Neighborhood Airplane Hangars

Anchorage, Alaska

Neighborhood Airplane Hangars

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

Wizard of Oz in metal.

Juneau, Alaska

Wizard of Oz Metal Statues

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

Arctic Brotherhood Hall.

Skagway, Alaska

Arctic Brotherhood Hall

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

Poker Flat Research Range

Fairbanks, Alaska

Poker Flat Research Range

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

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