A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

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

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

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.

Abstract marble carving for an 8.5-pound rock.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

At this coffee shop, each drink celebrates African-American history and luminaries.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

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

In 1863, a woman buried her hard-drinking husband beneath his beloved booze.