Places RoelV1978 Wants to Go

A small piece of Scotland sits in a park in Lower Manhattan.

It memorializes America’s initial military response to the terrorist attacks on our country on September 11, 2001.

A modest Alabama recording studio where some of music’s biggest voices found their sound.

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.

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

A fascinating museum near the birthplace of the greatest track and field athlete of all time.

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

The quiet resting place of a rock and roll legend.

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.

This massive cave is a sight to behold.

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.

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

The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.

This 19th-century hotel and spa hosted famous guests like like the Vanderbilt family, William Waldorf Astor, Helen Keller, and Jay Gould.

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

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

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

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

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

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

This 880-acre facility is home to a massive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars, as well as a 2.38-mile race course.

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