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A city park that once housed live spider monkeys and today features a working miniature train.

Learn about the neighborhood founded by the last people ever brought to the United States by the Atlantic Slave Trade, still inhabited by their descendants.

A treasure trove of artifacts dating back to the late 19th century in Alabama.

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.

Six separate cemeteries became one, on the grounds of a former schoolhouse.

A fascinating museum near the birthplace of the greatest track and field athlete of all time.

Alabama’s oldest and largest metaphysical shop.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

This massive cave is a sight to behold.

The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.

This 19th-century hotel and spa hosted famous guests like like the Vanderbilt family, William Waldorf Astor, Helen Keller, and Jay Gould.

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

In 1703, French settlers in what is now Mobile celebrated the first Mardi Gras celebration in the United States.

Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

Large rocks have been painted to whimsically resemble wild and farm animals.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.