Underneath this water pump, Annie Sullivan helped Keller speak her first words.

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

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

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

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

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

Founded by a man who called himself the greatest hunter alive.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

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

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

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

Tucked away atop a quaint Alabama pharmacy is this tiny display of antique medical tools.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

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

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

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