Alabama
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Featured Attractions
World's Largest Office Chair
Anniston, Alabama
33-ft. tall steel landmark -- this office supply company means business.
U.S. Space and Rocket Center
Huntsville, Alabama
America's space armada and impressive contrail of rocket and NASA history artifacts.
Unclaimed Baggage Center
Scottsboro, Alabama
Store where anything you've ever lost at the airport may end up at a bargain price.
Wade's Garden
Huntsville, Alabama
Wade Wharton gives props to his stroke for unleashing his inner yard artist.
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.
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.
Trunkations
Professor Cline's Year-End Statue Roundup
Elberta - "Too bad my cloning machine has been broken," said Mark Cline. This was a year in which there were many times he'd have liked to be in two places at once. Full story
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Offbeat Landmarks and Oddities
Choice field reports and tips. Also see: Complete list of Alabama attractions.
- Anniston: Hitler's Tea Service and Spy Weapons
- Anniston: World's Largest Office Chair
- 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
- Huntsville: Wade's Garden
- Mentone: Church Built Around a Rock [tips]
- Mobile: Battleship USS Alabama [tips], Sub USS Drum [tips]
- Mobile: Mobile 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
- Rockford: Fred, Town Dog Monument
- Scottsboro: Unclaimed Baggage Center
- Seale: Museum of Wonder [tips]
- Sylacauga: Gravity Hill [tips]
