Montgomery, Alabama
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.
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Montgomery, Alabama
Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.
Montgomery, Alabama
Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.
Montgomery, Alabama
The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.
Montgomery, Alabama
The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.
Millbrook, Alabama
The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.
Wetumpka, Alabama
This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."
Birmingham, Alabama
This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.
Birmingham, Alabama
Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.
Birmingham, Alabama
A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.
Birmingham, Alabama
This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.
Birmingham, Alabama
A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.
Birmingham, Alabama
Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.
Montevallo, Alabama
Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.
Montevallo, Alabama
The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Coulee City, Washington
Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.
Three Forks, Montana
For thousands of years, Native American hunters drove buffalo straight off this cliff in Montana's Yellowstone Country.
Three Forks, Montana
These giant metal horses graze on a hilltop near the Montana highway.
Helena, Montana
The old fire tower is one of the last of its kind in the United States.
Helena, Montana
One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.
Helena, Montana
Modeled after a famous church in Vienna, Austria—but in Helena, Montana.
Mountain Township, Illinois
In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.
Benton, Illinois
The famous Beatle secretly visited this Illinois town several times to visit his sister.
Effingham, Illinois
Known as the "Cross At The Crossroads," this massive metal cross is just short enough to avoid the FAA.