Montgomery, Alabama
Hank Williams's Gravesite
The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.
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Montgomery, Alabama
The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.
Montgomery, Alabama
The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.
Carrollton, Alabama
The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.
Cherokee, Alabama
A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.
Tuscumbia, Alabama
You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.
Phil Campbell, Alabama
Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."
Haleyville, Alabama
148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.
Huntsville, Alabama
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.
Huntsville, Alabama
Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Warrior, Alabama
In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.
Vestavia Hills, Alabama
This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.
Birmingham, Alabama
A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.
Birmingham, Alabama
In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.
Birmingham, Alabama
This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.
Homewood, Alabama
Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.
Columbus, Georgia
A stockpile of childhood lunch pails turned collectibles.
Columbus, Georgia
Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."
Seale, Alabama
A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.
Wetumpka, Alabama
One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.
Montevallo, Alabama
Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.
McCalla, Alabama
The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
The first space rock known to have struck a human.
Toomsuba, Mississippi
This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.