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A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

This papier-mâché diorama celebrates an unusual landmark: the brightly-colored runoff from a local sock factory.

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

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

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

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

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

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.

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

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

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

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

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

What better place to take a seat?

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.