Alabama
Find Alabama travel tips, stories, field reports and maps for unusual tourist attractions and landmarks.
Trunkations
Monument to Lady-Whacking Meteorite
Sylacauga - History was made just outside of Sylacauga, Alabama, in late November 1954. An 8.5-pound meteorite crashed through the ceiling of Ann Hodges' home, bounced off of a radio, and hit her on the thigh. Full story
Featured Attractions
Hitler's Tea Service and Spy Weapons
Anniston, Alabama
Adolf Hitler's silver tea set and rare spy assassination weapons are two highlights at the Berman Museum of World History.
Vulcan the Iron Man
Birmingham, Alabama
Ascend a tower to the 56-foot-tall statue of Vulcan, the pagan, bare-butted Roman smithy god.
The Sloss Furnaces
Birmingham, Alabama
For those who love exploring industrial ruins. Wander around an immense, rusting, turn-of-the-20th-century blast furnace.
Joe Minter’s African Village in America
Birmingham, Alabama
Since 1989, Joe Minter has been packing his yard with home-made sculptures, shrines, and signs as a tribute to African-Americans, on orders from God.
Hank Williams Death Car
Montgomery, Alabama
Country music star's car is at the Hank Williams Museum. And his grave is covered with astroturf.
Lightning Portrait Etched in Window
Carrollton, Alabama
Freaky hoo-ha etched into the garret window of an Alabama courthouse in 1878, still visible today if you squint.
Spear Hunting Museum
Summerdale, Alabama
More than you'll ever want to know about bringing down wildlife with a spear.
World's Largest Chair Battle
Anniston, Alabama
A gargantuan office chair reigned supreme for a time -- before a challenger from Italy kicked it over.
Ave Maria Grotto
Cullman, Alabama
Miniature world of religious buildings created by one single-minded monk.
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Landmarks and Oddities List
Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Anniston: Hitler's Tea Service and Spy Weapons
- Anniston: World's Largest Chair Contender
- Bessemer: Hitler's Typewriter
- Birmingham: Joe Minter's African Village in America
- Birmingham: Vulcan Iron Man
- Birmingham: Racist Hell Hounds sculpture
- Birmingham: Sloss Furnaces
- Birmingham: Statue of Liberty Replica [tips]
- Brundidge: Car Bumper Chicken [tips]
- Carrollton: Lightning Portrait of Henry Wells
- Cherokee: Coon Dog Cemetery [tips]
- Childersburg: DeSoto Caverns
- Clanton: Big Peach statue
- Clanton: Big Peach Water Tower
- Clayton: Whiskey Bottle Tombstone [tips]
- Cullman: Ave Maria Grotto
- Decatur: Pest Control Exhibit
- Dothan: Peanut Capital of the World [tips]
- Dothan: Monument to the Hog
- Elkmont: Saturn 1B Rocket
- Enterprise: Boll Weevil Monument [tips]
- Huntsville: Grave of Miss Baker, Space Monkey
- Huntsville: US Space and Rocket Center
- Mentone: Church Built Around a Rock [tips]
- Mobile: Battleship USS Alabama [tips], Sub USS Drum [tips]
- Mobile: Eichold-Heustis Medical Museum [tips]
- Montgomery: Hank Williams Death Car, his Funeral Site Statue, his Astroturf Grave
- Montgomery: The MOOseum [tips]
- Northport: Huge red dog, fire ant [tips]
- Northport: McD's - Reagan Ate Here
- Prattville: W. C. Rice's Cross Garden [tips]
- Rockford: Fred, Town Dog Monument [tips]
- Scottsboro: Unclaimed Baggage Center
- Seale: Museum of Wonder [tips]
- Summerdale: Spear Hunting Museum
- Sylacauga: Gravity Hill [tips]
