Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

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

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

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

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

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

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

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.

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

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

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.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.