Places mdfirefighter64 Wants to Go

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

What better place to take a seat?

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

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

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

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

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

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

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

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

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

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

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

In a largely deserted ghost town, a little brick building recalls its history as a gold rush hub and haven for outlaws.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.