Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

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

A sinuous monument to the first person who was struck by a meteorite.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

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

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

A natural history museum with an extensive collection of bird dioramas.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

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.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

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

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

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

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

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

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