Places rubysage Wants to Go

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

What better place to take a seat?

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

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

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

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

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

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

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

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

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

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

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

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

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

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

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

Possibly the world's only drive-in movie theater with an attached motel.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

A wealth of pop culture statuary and green chile dishes give this roadside restaurant clout.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

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