Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

Orr Park's dead trees have been carved into a menagerie of whimsical visages.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

A castle-inspired apartment building that has stood in Birmingham since 1927.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

A 56-foot tall statue of the god of fire looks out over Birmingham, Alabama.