Places mdfirefighter64 Wants to Go

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

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

Pay your respects to the man who revived the Mardi Gras celebration in Mobile, Alabama.

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.

Striking natural chalk bluffs that rise dramatically along the Tombigbee River.

Alabama’s oldest and largest metaphysical shop.

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

After this century-old bridge collapsed, volunteers rebuilt it in a new location.

This historic chapel was rebuilt after lighting caused the original structure to catch fire.

A statue in Enterprise, Alabama hailing the fast food giant Ronald McDonald, stylized as a boll weevil.

Now abandoned, the first reinforced concrete bridge in Alabama still stands over the Pea River.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

A faithful dog is forever watching over the family children.

This tiny, triangular block has held the world record since 1964.

The metal spire on the roof of this tower was intended as an airship docking station, but it was never actually used.

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.

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

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

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

Medical museum featuring a number of excellent medical models.