Places SamWPiano Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

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

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

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

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

What better place to take a seat?

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

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

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

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

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

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

Come for the 14-foot-long taxidermy alligator. Stay for the mini costumed gators shooting pool.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.