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

This space rock fragment is one of the only meteors to have ever struck a human.

This historic chapel was rebuilt after lighting caused the original structure to catch fire.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

Abstract marble carving for an 8.5-pound rock.

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

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

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

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

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

The whimsical construction on the roof has given rise to many a Montgomery myth about its contents.

A bronze sculpture of a white dove commissioned by Pope Benedict XVI.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The remains of an idyllic small town built for the film 'Big Fish' still stand around a rundown main street.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

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