Birmingham, Alabama
Red Mountain Park
This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.
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Birmingham, Alabama
This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.
Richmond, Virginia
A convincing little bit of ancient Egypt smack dab in Richmond, Virginia.
Kentwood, Louisiana
A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.
Rayne, Louisiana
The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.
Houston, Texas
A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.
Houston, Texas
Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.
Italy, Texas
A starship has landed in Texas, a welcome break for weary travelers from a drab stretch of I-35.
Austin, Texas
A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.
Austin, Texas
Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.
Austin, Texas
Controversially claiming the title of world's biggest bass drum, UT's Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the Manhattan Project.
Durant, Oklahoma
No matter what the plaque under this massive legume says, this is not the world's largest peanut.
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma
The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Sitting in the arguable birthplace of the Wild West, this museum holds the largest collection of bronco busting bric-a-brac in the world.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
This museum holds not just a world class collection of firefighting artifacts and gear but even the region's first fire station itself.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.
Dallas, Texas
See the sky in a new way through this art installation.
Dallas, Texas
A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Bangor, Maine
This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.
Bangor, Maine
The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.
New Windsor, New York
100 massive sculptures in the Hudson River Valley.