Places Mohunch Wants to Go

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

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

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

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

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

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

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

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

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

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

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

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

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

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

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

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

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.