Places miriamrigg Wants to Go

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

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

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

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

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

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

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

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

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

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

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

A faithful dog is forever watching over the family children.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

Final resting place for the Triangle Shirtwaist fire’s unidentified victims.

A heartbreaking monument showing the last morning in the life of Jane Griffith.

A curious friendship between two inanimate ladies.

The graveyard holds the remains of Irish immigrants who arrived in Queens after fleeing the Great Famine.

Holding the most bodies of any cemetery in the United States.

The final resting place of some of Staten Island's earliest settlers and their descendants.

One of New Jersey's oldest churches is a historical treasure trove.

The first of Lancaster's "rural cemeteries."