This 12-foot-tall T-rex is the largest K’Nex skeleton sculpture in the world.

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.

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

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

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

This 19th-century hotel and spa hosted famous guests like like the Vanderbilt family, William Waldorf Astor, Helen Keller, and Jay Gould.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Large rocks have been painted to whimsically resemble wild and farm animals.

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

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

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

This tiny, triangular block has held the world record since 1964.

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

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

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

What better place to take a seat?

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

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

Inside this small brick bungalow is a collection of toys intended for the afterlife.

The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.

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