Alabama
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Lady in the Bay
Elberta, Alabama
The giant Lady, a creation of artist Mark Cline, appears to be using the bayou as a bathtub.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
World's Largest Office Chair
Anniston, Alabama
33-ft. tall steel landmark -- this office supply company means business.
Vulcan the Iron Man
Birmingham, Alabama
Ascend a tower to the 56-foot-tall statue of Vulcan, the pagan, bare-butted Roman smithy god.
African Village in America
Birmingham, Alabama
Since 1989, Joe Minter has been packing his yard with homemade sculptures, shrines, and signs as a tribute to African-Americans, on orders from 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.
World's Largest Motorcycle Museum
Birmingham, Alabama
George Barber's collection of nearly 1,400 motorcycles (and a few dozen cars as well), displayed in a cross between the Guggenheim and a parking garage.
Ave Maria Grotto
Cullman, Alabama
Fantastically detailed miniature world of religious buildings was created by one single-minded monk.
U.S. Space and Rocket Center
Huntsville, Alabama
America's space armada has left an impressive contrail of rocket and NASA history artifacts.
Hank Williams Death Car
Montgomery, Alabama
Country music star's car is at the Hank Williams Museum. And his grave is covered with astroturf.
Hitler's Tea Service and Spy Weapons
Anniston, Alabama
Adolf Hitler's tea service plots porcelain domination in the Berman Museum of World History's coffee and tea service collection.
Hitler's Typewriter, MLK's Jail Door
Bessemer, Alabama
In the town museum, an infernal machine from Hitler's "Eagle's Nest" hideout, and the jail cell door from Martin Luther King Jr's local imprisonment.
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- Anniston: World's Largest Office Chair
- Anniston: Hitler's Tea Service and Spy Weapons
- Athens: Giant Statue of a Boy [tips]
- Bessemer: Hitler's Typewriter, MLK's Jail Door
- Birmingham: Vulcan the Iron Man
- Birmingham: Statue of Liberty Replica
- Birmingham: African Village in America
- Birmingham: The Sloss Furnaces
- Birmingham: Bronze Statue of Eddie Kendricks
- Birmingham: World's Largest Motorcycle Museum
- Carrollton: Lightning Portrait of Henry Wells
- Cherokee: Coon Dog Cemetery [tips]
- Childersburg: Majestic Caverns
- Clanton: Big Peach Water Tower
- Cloverdale: Cloverdale Spook Lights [tips]
- Cullman: Ave Maria Grotto
- Danville: Jesse Owens Park and Museum [tips]
- Daphne: Athletes Made of Junk
- Dora: Tim Hollis' Pop Culture Museum [tips]
- Dothan: Big Gold Peanut and Art Peanuts [tips]
- Dothan: Monument to the Hog
- Dothan: World's Smallest City Block [tips]
- Dothan: Big Peanut [tips]
- Double Springs: Dual Destiny Monument [tips]
- Elberta: Dinosaurs in the Woods
- Elberta: Bamahenge
- Elberta: Lady in the Bay
- Enterprise: Boll Weevil Monument
- Enterprise: Ronald McWeevil [tips]
- Fairhope: Hermit Hut of Tolstoy Park [tips]
- Florence: World's Longest Memorial to a Woman or an Indian [tips]
- Florence: Live Lions On College Campus [tips]
- Foley: Lambert's Cafe III - Home of Throwed Rolls [tips]
- Forkland: Jim Bird's Hay Bale Art and Tin Man [tips]
- Fort Payne: Junk Creatures of Mike Goggans - Lirpa Anad Nitsud
- Fort Rucker: U.S. Army Aviation Museum
- Gadsden: Noccalula Falls Doomed Maiden [tips]
- Gulf Shores: Giant Walk-In Shark, Pirate Ship [tips]
- Hanceville: Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament [tips]
- Heflin: Hearse Pile and Metal Chickens [tips]
- Huntsville: U.S. Space and Rocket Center
- Lanett: Playhouse Grave of Little Nadine Earles [tips]
- Mentone: Church With a Rock In It
- Millbrook: Fake Town of Spectre from Big Fish [tips]
- Mobile: U.S.S Alabama Battleship [tips]
- Mobile: Mobile Carnival Museum [tips]
- Montgomery: Hank Williams Death Car
- Muscle Shoals: 25-Foot-Tall Aluminum Bass Guitar Man
- Muscle Shoals: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios [tips]
- Northport: President Reagan Ate Here McDonald's
- Northport: Rusty the Big Red Dog [tips]
- Roanoke: Gas Station Crudely Shaped Like An Elephant [tips]
- Scottsboro: Unclaimed Baggage Center
- Seale: Museum of Wonder: Drive-Thru
- Semmes: Smallest Church on Earth [tips]
- Sheffield: Giant Aluminum Rock 'n' Roller
- Summerdale: Spear Hunting Museum [tips]
- Summerdale: Alligator Alley, Home Of Captain Crunch [tips]
- Troy: Terracotta Warriors, Wounded Dove [tips]
- Tuscaloosa: Alabama's Housewife-Whacking Meteorite
- Tuscaloosa: Fallen Robot: Goldie 1971
- Valley: Rusty and the Iron Family [tips]
- Woodville: Cathedral Caverns
