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|   LARGEST - Cemetery in Bibb County, AL - West Blocton, AL
in Superlatives Mount Carmel Cemetery contains the graves of Civil War veterans and veterans of all American wars since. posted by:  hummerstation location: Alabama date approved: 03/23/2014 last visited: never |
 view galleryE47 km | LARGEST -- Seamless Pipe, Iron & Steel Museum of AL, Tannehill Ironworks State Park, McCalla AL in Superlatives A piece of the largest seamless pipe made by US Steel foundry in Fairfield AL posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Alabama date approved: 08/27/2017 last visited: never |
 view galleryE47 km | SMALLEST -- Seamless Pipe, Iron & Steel Museum of AL, Tannehill Ironworks State Park, McCalla AL in Superlatives A piece of the smallest seamless pipe made by US Steel foundry in Fairfield AL posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Alabama date approved: 08/27/2017 last visited: never |
 view galleryE47 km | OLDEST -- Mountains in North America, Tannehill Ironworks State Park, McCalla AL in Superlatives A small sign declares this spot the end of the Appalachian Mountain Range, the oldest mountains in North America. posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Alabama date approved: 08/25/2017 last visited: 07/26/2017 |
 view gallery W48.8 km
|  Face in the Window, Pickens County Courthouse
in Ghosts and Hauntings From the garrett window on the north side of the Pickens County Courthouse, the face of Henry Wells still stares down at you even though he died in 1878. posted by:  Saureus location: Alabama date approved: 03/21/2008 last visited: 02/24/2018 |
 view galleryE67.3 km | King House - Montevallo, AL in Ghosts and Hauntings Red brick two-story house built in 1823 by Edmond King. The house is now a part of the University of Montevallo campus. posted by: hummerstation location: Alabama date approved: 02/12/2013 last visited: 07/02/2013 |
 view gallery NE78.2 km
|  UAB Dragon - Birmingham, Alabama
in Epic Beings and Creatures Blaze the Dragon is a 16-foot-long, smoke-breathing concrete statue of the University of Alabama-Birmingham's mascot. posted by: Scooter Bill location: Alabama date approved: 09/04/2008 last visited: 06/11/2011 |
 view galleryNE78.9 km |  Statue of Vulcan - Birmingham AL
in Satellite Imagery Oddities Vulcan, Birmingham Alabama’s colossal statue is the world’s largest cast iron statue and considered one of the most memorable works of civic art in the United States. Designed by Italian artist Giuseppe Moretti and cast from local iron in 1904. posted by: Don.Morfe location: Alabama date approved: 02/04/2022 last visited: 02/04/2022 |
 view galleryNE78.9 km | LARGEST - Cast Iron Statue In The World in Superlatives The Vulcan statue is the largest cast iron statue in the world and the symbol of Birmingham, Alabama. posted by: Thorny1 location: Alabama date approved: 07/11/2008 last visited: 06/03/2019 |
 view galleryNE78.9 km | Vulcan - Birmingham, AL in Epic Beings and Creatures The Vulcan statue is the largest cast iron statue in the world and the symbol of Birmingham, Alabama. posted by: Thorny1 location: Alabama date approved: 07/11/2008 last visited: 06/03/2019 |
 view galleryNE80.5 km | Sloss Furnace - Birmingham, Alabama in Ghosts and Hauntings Numerous spectral sightings of a former ironworker who perished many years ago in this historic blast furnace have established Sloss Furnace as a major supernatural crossroads. posted by: Scooter Bill location: Alabama date approved: 09/04/2008 last visited: 06/16/2022 |
 view galleryNE82.9 km |  Stan the Muffler Man - Birmingham, AL
in Highway Giants - Muffler Men Stan the Muffler Man is located just off the Tallapoosa Street exit of I-59 in Birmingham, Alabama. posted by: Scooter Bill location: Alabama date approved: 06/16/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE88.7 km | The Little Girl of East Lake in Ghosts and Hauntings The ghost of little May Hawes has been playing, swimming, and chasing geese in Birmingham’s East Lake Park since her murderous death in those Deep South spring waters since the winter of 1888. posted by: kelwon3rd location: Alabama date approved: 10/03/2012 last visited: 12/19/2013 |
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| Most Severe Tornado Recorded History - Guin AL in Superlatives The Storms of 1974 posted by: YoSam. location: Alabama date approved: 11/07/2015 last visited: never |
 view galleryE95.4 km |  Clanton Giant Peach
in Ginormous Everyday Objects Clanton is known for its giant peach-shaped water tower (a similar water tower can be found in Gaffney, South Carolina). posted by: JacobBarlow location: Alabama date approved: 01/22/2008 last visited: 06/24/2023 |
 view galleryE101.2 km |  The Legend of John Henry - Leeds, Alabama
in Weird Story Locations According to local tradition and the research of a folklore researcher, the race between legendary steel driver John Henry and a steam hammer is said to have taken place at Oak Tunnel outside of Leeds, AL on September 20, 1887. posted by: Scooter Bill location: Alabama date approved: 11/11/2007 last visited: 02/18/2010 |
 view galleryE103.3 km |  Interstate Lead Company - Leeds, Alabama
in Super Fund Sites The Interstate Lead Company was a secondary lead smelting and battery recycling facility in Leeds, Jefferson County, Alabama.
posted by: Scooter Bill location: Alabama date approved: 12/05/2007 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE108.1 km |  Giant Chuckwagon Driver - Moody, Alabama
in Giants of Commerce This former restaurant chuckwagon driver is now serving the construction industry by guarding a mailbox along a rural road in Moody, AL. posted by: Scooter Bill location: Alabama date approved: 08/02/2008 last visited: 11/23/2013 |
 view gallery SE108.3 km
| Pegue's Ghost - Old Cahawba Archaeological Park, Alabama in Ghosts and Hauntings Even though the State of Alabama's first capital became a ghost town, the story of its first ghost lives on. posted by: xptwo location: Alabama date approved: 04/24/2012 last visited: never |
 view galleryE117.8 km |  Gravity Hill Road - Sylacauga, Alabama
in Vortexes, Mystery Spots, and Gravity Hills Located west of Alabama's US 280 is a spot where generations of teenagers have witnessed their cars roll "uphill" when left in neutral.
posted by: Scooter Bill location: Alabama date approved: 02/20/2009 last visited: 02/03/2011 |
 view galleryE124.1 km | Giant Milk Carton - Weogufka, Alabama in Ginormous Everyday Objects Got milk? posted by: Scooter Bill location: Alabama date approved: 08/03/2008 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE127 km | OLDEST - House in Cullman, AL in Superlatives The Weiss Cottage, built in the early 1870s, is the oldest house in Cullman, AL. posted by: hummerstation location: Alabama date approved: 06/15/2013 last visited: never |
 view galleryNE127.1 km |  Gazebo & Stairs - Cullman, AL
in Elevated Everyday Objects I can only guess posted by: YoSam. location: Alabama date approved: 11/02/2015 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE130.5 km | W. C. Rice Cross Garden - Prattville, AL in Weird Story Locations W.C. Rice began creating his "Cross Garden" in the 1970s. There are several admonitions that "Hell is hot, hot, hot" among other signs. posted by: xptwo location: Alabama date approved: 04/16/2013 last visited: never |
 view gallerySE150.2 km | Hebe -- Court Square Fountain, Montgomery AL in Epic Beings and Creatures The Goddess Hebe crowns a water fountain that capped an artiesian well in downtown Montgomery AL posted by: Benchmark Blasterz location: Alabama date approved: 08/29/2017 last visited: 07/26/2017 |
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