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Cullman, Alabama

A Benedictine monk spent decades building 125 miniature landmarks from stone, shells, broken tile, and discarded objects.

Birmingham, Alabama

The world’s largest cast-iron statue watches over Birmingham from a pedestal atop Red Mountain.

Elberta, Alabama

Hidden in an Alabama pine forest, this full-size Stonehenge replica looks ancient but is built from fiberglass.

Phil Campbell, Alabama

Thousands of tiny glowworm-like larvae illuminate the walls of this shadowy Alabama sandstone canyon.

Enterprise, Alabama

Enterprise erected the world’s first monument honoring an agricultural pest and placed a giant beetle on top.

Repton, Alabama

A 67-foot fiberglass horseshoe crab has migrated from Baltimore to Kentucky, Ohio, and finally rural Alabama.

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham preserved an enormous maze of blast furnaces, pipes, towers, and industrial machinery as a public museum.

Woodville, Alabama

A vast cave entrance leads to a stone forest, underground river, and one of the world’s largest stalagmites.

Natural Bridge, Alabama

Alabama’s enormous sandstone bridge shares its forest with a 15-foot rock formation resembling a human profile.

Anniston, Alabama

This 33-foot office chair turned an ordinary piece of furniture into a ten-ton Alabama roadside landmark.