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

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

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

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

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

The highest point in Alabama was almost completely deforested, but is now home to protected towers and trees.

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

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

One person's lost luggage is another person's treasure.

Bananas are often left for the first monkey America ever recovered alive after being launched into space.

A monument to a Native American leader who was known for never breaking a promise and met his end after signing a deal with white settlers.

The home of a former Minor League baseball team that beat Joe DiMaggio's New York Yankees in 1949.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.