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This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

Explore the wide world of miniature trains.

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

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

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

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.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

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

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

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

This 880-acre facility is home to a massive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars, as well as a 2.38-mile race course.

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.

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

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

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

This small cemetery contains the graves of prisoners of war who were interred at Fort McClellan during World War II.