Alabama Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Alabama. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Birmingham | Huntsville | Mobile | Montgomery
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Albertville: One-Millionth Fire Hydrant, Chrome-Plated - Aliceville: German POWs and Coca-Cola
- Andalusia: Big White Shirt in White Dress Shirt Capital
- Andalusia: Giant Statue Of Deer Jumping A Log
- Andalusia: Mural: Hank Williams Marriage Garage
- Andalusia: Mural: Home of the World Championship Domino Tournament
- Anniston: Alabama-shaped Reflecting Pool
- Anniston: Hitler's Tea Service and Spy Weapons
- Anniston: World's Largest Office Chair
- Ashville: Four Big Adirondack Chairs
- Athens: Giant Statue of a Boy
- Auburn: Marker: The Bottle: Lost Roadside Wonder
- Bessemer: Hitler's Typewriter, MLK's Jail Door
- Bessemer: One-Millionth Pullman-Standard Freight Car
- Birmingham: African Village in America
- Birmingham: Alabama Walk of Fame
- Birmingham: Birthplace of Veterans Day
- Birmingham: Blaze the Dragon
- Birmingham: Bronze Statue of Eddie Kendricks
- Birmingham: Full Moon Mural
- Birmingham: Garage Cafe - Junk-Filled Eatery
- Birmingham: Heaviest Corner on Earth
- Birmingham: Lady in the Lake
- Birmingham: Little Miss Fancy
- Birmingham: Miss Electra, Power Goddess
- Birmingham: Oldest Baseball Stadium in USA
- Birmingham: Penny the Dog
- Birmingham: Racist Dogs Sculpture
- Birmingham: Ram-Headed Southern Storyteller
- Birmingham: Statue of Liberty Replica
- Birmingham: The Sloss Furnaces
- Birmingham: Vulcan the Iron Man
- Birmingham: World's Largest Motorcycle Museum
- Brewton: Old Theater with No Theater
- Bridgeport: Russell Cave: Caveman Hangout
- Brundidge: Metal Mutant Sculptures
- Burnt Corn: Burnt Corn Coca-Cola Barn Sign
- Calera: Rock Igloo Prayer House
- Carrollton: Lightning Portrait of Henry Wells
- Centre: Big Fish
- Centre: Grave of the Typewriter Inventor
- Cherokee: Coon Dog Cemetery
- Cherokee: Shoe Tree
- Childersburg: Lightning Grave of Bill Cosper
- Childersburg: Majestic Caverns
- Clanton: Big Lighthouse Fountain
- Clanton: Big Peach Statue
- Clanton: Big Peach Water Tower
- Clayton: Whiskey Bottle Tombstone
- Cloverdale: Cloverdale Spook Lights
- Cottonwood: Peanut of Welcome
- Cullman: Ave Maria Grotto
- Cullman: Car Half in the Ground
- Cullman: Clarkson Covered Bridge
- Danville: Jesse Owens Park and Museum
- Daphne: Athletes Made of Junk
- Daphne: Bronze Fist Holds Flag
- Daphne: Frank and Stein: Junk Art Man and Dog
- Daphne: See Alligators from Town Boardwalk
- Dauphin Island: High Tide Toilets
- Decatur: Cook Museum of Natural Science
- Dora: Tim Hollis' Pop Culture Museum
- Dothan: Big Gold Peanut and Art Peanuts
- Dothan: Big Peanut
- Dothan: Monument to the Hog
- Dothan: Peter Toth Whispering Giant
- Dothan: World's Smallest City Block
- Double Springs: Dual Destiny Monument
- Elberta: Bamahenge
- Elberta: Dinosaurs in the Woods
- Elberta: Knights in the Woods
- Elberta: Lady in the Bay
- Elberta: Roman Columns
- Enterprise: Boll Weevil Monument
- Enterprise: Depot Museum: Weevil Relics
- Enterprise: Ronald McWeevil
- Eufaula: Manny, 12-Foot-Tall Fish
- Eufaula: Statue of Leroy Brown, Famous Fish
- Eufaula: Tree That Owns Itself
- Fackler: Rock Animal Zoo
- Fairhope: Hermit Hut of Tolstoy Park
- Fairhope: Mosher and Fairhope Story Book Castles
- Florala: Big Bass Fish
- Florala: Four Columns
- Florala: Restored 1925 Gas Station
- Florence: Forks of Cypress Plantation Ruins
- Florence: Forks of Cypress Replica
- Florence: Live Lions On College Campus
- Florence: Outlaw Buried Beneath Road
- Florence: World's Longest Memorial to a Woman or an Indian
- Foley: Lambert's Cafe III - Home of Throwed Rolls
- Forkland: Jim Bird's Hay Bale Art and Tin Man
- Fort Mitchell: Civil War General's Horse Mounting Rock
- Fort Payne: Bronze Statues Of The Band Alabama
- Fort Payne: Dye Ditch Gang
- Fort Payne: Jesus Car Crashed Into a Wall
- Fort Payne: Joe's Truck Stop
- Fort Payne: Junk Creatures of Mike Goggans - Lirpa Anad Nitsud
- Fort Rucker: U.S. Army Aviation Museum
- Gadsden: Noccalula Falls Doomed Maiden
- Gadsden: Reb Helpy Helperton: Emma Sansom Statue
- Gadsden: Tribute to Air Conditioning
- Gardendale: 125-Foot-Tall Cross
- Georgiana: Hank Williams Boyhood Home and Museum
- Gulf Shores: Giant Hang Loose Hand
- Gulf Shores: Giant Shrimp
- Gulf Shores: Giant Walk-In Shark, Pirate Ship
- Gulf Shores: World's Largest Purple Octopus
- Haleyville: Home of 911 - Historic Red Phone
- Hanceville: Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament
- Harpersville: Large Copper Frog
- Hartselle: Iron Man: Ancient Billboard
- Headland: Dancin' Dave, Human Peanut
- Heflin: Hearse Pile and Metal Chickens
- Highland Home: School Mascot F-16 Jet on a Stick
- Huntsville: 74-Foot-Tall Cross
- Huntsville: Black Simon Helps Suffering Jesus
- Huntsville: Closet of the Spiderweb Lady
- Huntsville: Eggbeater Jesus
- Huntsville: Grave of Miss Baker, Space Monkey
- Huntsville: Little Richard's Grave
- Huntsville: U.S. Space and Rocket Center
- Irvington: El Camino Chickens
- Jasper: Jesus on a Hospital Door
- Killen: Arx Mortis Haunted Attraction
- Kinston: Man Buried In His Bed
- Lanett: Playhouse Grave of Little Nadine Earles
- Marvel: Crenelated Concrete Water Tower
- Mentone: Church With a Rock In It
- Millbrook: Fake Town of Spectre from Big Fish
- Mobile: Gaudy Mardi Gras Statues
- Mobile: Giant Gun Safe on a Pole
- Mobile: Mobile Carnival Museum
- Mobile: Mobile Medical Museum
- Mobile: Oyster Shell Community Art Project
- Mobile: Sub USS Drum: Up On Blocks
- Mobile: U.S.S Alabama Battleship
- Monroevile: Literary Capital of Alabama
- Monroeville: Harper Lee Gravesite
- Monroeville: To Kill A Mockingbird Town and Museum
- Montevallo: American Village and History in Miniature
- Montevallo: Center of Alabama
- Montevallo: Tinglewood Trail - Orr Park
- Montgomery: First White House of the Confederacy
- Montgomery: Hank Williams Astroturf Grave
- Montgomery: Hank Williams Death Car
- Montgomery: Hank Williams Statue
- Montgomery: Jeff Davis's Presidential Star
- Montgomery: Mothers of Gynecology
- Montgomery: National Memorial for Justice and Peace
- Montgomery: Rooftop Sarcophagus of Steiner and Lobman
- Montgomery: Rosa Parks Museum
- Montgomery: Rosa Parks Waits For Bus
- Montgomery: Rosa Parks: Metal Surprise
- Montgomery: Stockyard: Eat Or Bid For Cattle
- Montgomery: The MOOseum
- Montgomery: World's Largest Brick Made of Bricks
- Montgomery: Wright Brothers Flyer Replica
- Muscle Shoals: 25-Foot-Tall Aluminum Bass Guitar Man
- Muscle Shoals: Muscle Shoals Sound Studios
- Natural Bridge: Natural Bridge of Alabama
- Newton: Cursed Hanging Hole of Bill Sketoe
- Northport: Patriotic Jesus in a Glass Box
- Northport: President Reagan Ate Here McDonald's
- Northport: Rusty the Big Red Dog
- Oak Grove: Housewife-Whacking Meteor Fell Here
- Ohatchee: Alabama's Largest Confederate Memorial
- Opelika: Monkey Park Monkey Cage: Fake Monkeys
- Opelika: Rocky Brook Rocket Train
- Oxford: Mushroom Pizza Giants
- Ozark: Rear End of Pink Volkswagen
- Phil Campbell: Eerie Glowing Dismalites of Dismals Canyon
- Plateau: Former Last Enslaved Person Smuggled into U.S.
- Prattville: Cross Garden: Hell's Warning Label
- Prattville: Strange Domed Mini-Building
- Prattville: Wilderness Park: USA's Vietnam
- Rainsville: Barter Man
- Remlap: VW Spider Car
- Roanoke: Gas Station Crudely Shaped Like An Elephant
- Robertsdale: Derailed Diner
- Robertsdale: Fiberglass Refugees from Theme Park
- Robertsdale: VW Hippie Bus Entrance
- Rockford: Fred the Town Dog
- Scottsboro: Pencil-Headed Head of Andrew Jackson
- Scottsboro: Unclaimed Baggage Center
- Seale: Museum of Wonder: Drive-Thru
- Selma: Second Tomb of VP William Rufus King
- Semmes: Smallest Church on Earth
- Sheffield: Giant Aluminum Rock 'n' Roller
- Spanish Fort: 14-Foot-High Paper Clip
- Spanish Fort: 16-Foot-Long Dental Tools
- Stevenson: Depot Museum: Electrocuted Eagle
- Summerdale: Alligator Alley, Home Of Captain Crunch
- Summerdale: Spear Hunting Museum
- Sylacauga: Gomer Pyle - Jim Nabors Memorabilia
- Sylacauga: Gravity Hill
- Sylacauga: Monument To The Housewife-Whacking Meteorite
- Sylacauga: Replica of the Housewife-Conking Meteorite
- Townley: Toilet Humor: Townley Rest Area
- Troy: Steel Bull
- Troy: Terracotta Warriors, Wounded Dove
- Trussville: Classic Cars and Garage Museum
- Tuscaloosa: Alabama's Housewife-Whacking Meteorite
- Tuscaloosa: Coach Bear Bryant Museum
- Tuscaloosa: Fallen Robot: Goldie 1971
- Tuscaloosa: Large Kaleidoscope
- Tuscaloosa: Running Minerva
- Tuscaloosa: Tank, Chopper, and Jeep
- Tuscaloosa: Tuska the Elephant
- Tuscumbia: Rattlesnake Saloon - In a Cave
- Tuskegee: Booker T. Washington and Friend
- Tuskegee: George Washington Carver Museum
- Union Springs: Bird Dog Statue, Field Trial Capital of the World
- Valley: Robot Soldier and Dog
- Valley: Rusty and the Iron Family
- Vestavia Hills: Temple of Sibyl
- Vinemont: Abandoned Airplane Gas Station
- West Blocton: West Blocton Coke Ovens
- Wetumpka: Hubcap Catfish
- Woodville: Cathedral Caverns
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Albertville: Muffler Man - Paul Bunyan
- Anniston: Elephant Statue
- Auburn: Bunnymen in a Lake
- Birmingham: Stan the Muffler Man
- Brundidge: Big Rooster Made of Car Bumpers
- Cullman: Sleep in a Lighthouse
- Daphne: Alabama-Shaped Swimming Pool
- Elkmont: Saturn 1B Rocket
- Eufaula: Tom Mann's Fish World
- Florence: Ghost Bridge
- Gordo: Ma'Cille's Museum of Miscellanea
- Harvest: Coke Sign Eaten by a Tree
- Huntsville: Wade's Garden
- Huntsville: World's Largest Jukebox
- Montgomery: George and Lurleen Wallace Museum
- Opelika: Mann Museum
- Pell City: Small chapel, Yard Decor
- Robertsdale: Big Honey Bee on a Pole
- Robertsdale: Statues of Styx River Water World
- Scottsboro: Frog Mariachi Band
- Selma: Political School Bus
- Selma: Tall Indian Skeleton in a Restaurant
- Spanish Fort: Restaurant Booth used by Elvis
- Spanish Fort: Russian Sea Rescue Pod
- Stapleton: Paul Bunyan Woodsman
- Talladega: Hubcap King
- Tuscaloosa: Neon: Moon Winx Lodge Sign
- Tuscaloosa: Tornado Survivor Tea Glass
- Tuskegee: Hillbilly Mall
- Valley Head: Sequoyah Caverns
- Vinemont: Crooked Creek Civil War Museum
- Wetumpka: Replica Ancient Greek Temple
