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The Crystal Shrine Grotto

Memphis, Tennessee

The Crystal Shrine Grotto

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Thermal Spring Cascades

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Thermal Spring Cascades

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

The Arlington Hotel

Hot Springs, Arkansas

The Arlington Hotel

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

Hot Springs Beer

Hot Springs, Arkansas

Hot Springs Beer

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

The Blue Whale of Catoosa, OK

Catoosa, Oklahoma

Blue Whale of Catoosa

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Meadow Gold Sign

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Meadow Gold Sign

This 1930s-era Route 66 Tulsa landmark was moved, restored, and filled with neon.

The Blue Dome and the Tulsa skyline.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Blue Dome

A Route 66 filling station that was designed to resemble the Hagia Sophia, and is now the symbol of an arts district.

Golden Driller

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Golden Driller

The fifth tallest statue in the United States is a shirtless monument to the oil worker.

The Art Deco architecture.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Boston Avenue Methodist Church

One of the best examples of Art Deco architecture in the United States.

Buck Atom

Tulsa, Oklahoma

Buck Atom

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

The Center of the Universe, Tulsa OK.

Tulsa, Oklahoma

The Center of the Universe

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Price Tower

Bartlesville, Oklahoma

Price Tower

The only fully-realized skyscraper built by the famed American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright.

Model of the Mississippi at Mud Island River Park

Memphis, Tennessee

Mud Island River Park

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Memphis Pyramid

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis Pyramid

The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.

Earnestine & Hazel's.

Memphis, Tennessee

Earnestine & Hazel's

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Moundville Archaeological Site

Moundville, Alabama

Moundville Archaeological Site

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

Capitol Park.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Capitol Park

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

Goldie 71 as first installed, 2009

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Goldie 1971 - The Fallen Robot

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

Heaviest Corner on Earth 1993.

Birmingham, Alabama

Heaviest Corner on Earth

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

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.

Sloss Furnaces

Birmingham, Alabama

Sloss Furnaces

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

An assortment of memories and collectables on display.

Birmingham, Alabama

Museum of Fond Memories at Reed Books

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

The meteorite sitting on top of the console radio from the Hedges home.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

The Hodges Meteorite

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

 The Storyteller

Birmingham, Alabama

'The Storyteller'

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

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