(Photo) The Twin Spires at Churchill Downs. Piece 1: Churchill Downs. Located in Louisville KY (704 Central Avenue) just south of downtown is Churchill Downs, one of the most famous horse racing tracks in the world and home of the Kentucky Derby. The track was first...
(Photo) Bryant Denny Stadium Field View. Piece 1: Bryant Denny Stadium/Rama Jama's. Located in Tuscaloosa AL on the campus of the University of Alabama is legendary Bryant Denny Stadium, home field of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team. Named for former University...
(Photo) Cook Museum of Natural Science. Piece 1: The Cook Museum of Natural History and C.F. Penn Hamburgers (Decatur AL). The Cook Museum began in 1968 as a display of pinned insects from the professional collection of John Cook, Sr., which he primarily used for...
(Photo) Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. Piece 1: Birmingham Civil Rights District. The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute (BCRI), located at 520 16th Street North, was founded in 1992 to preserve and promote the history of the civil rights movement in Birmingham,...
(Photo) Crystal Sands Beach. Piece 1: Crystal Sands Beach/Alvin’s Island/Pompano Joe’s. Miramar Beach is located on a peninsula in the panhandle of Florida, just east of Destin. The Destin/Miramar Beach area really increased in popularity with retirees and vacationers...
(Photo) Ironwork at Juliette Low Birthplace. Piece 1: Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace/Historic District. Located in the North Historic District of Savannah GA (10 East Oglethorpe Avenue) is the birthplace of Girl Scouts founder Juliette Gordon Low. Born in Savannah in...
(Photo) Observation Deck at Pyramid. Piece 1: The Pyramid. Located near the Mississippi River just north of downtown Memphis TN is the iconic Pyramid, a bronze glass-glazed polyhedron shaped facility with an apex 320 feet high. The structure (which opened in 1991) is...
(Photo) Talladega Super Speedway. Piece 1: Talladega Super Speedway and International Motorsports Hall of Fame. Located about an hour drive east of Birmingham AL is the Talladega Super Speedway (TSS). Bill France, Sr., the founder and longtime manager of the National...
(Photo) Mabrey Overlook. Piece 1: Lake Guntersville State Park. Located in northeast Alabama is a beautiful state-managed park featuring a resort facility, camp grounds, and many other amenities. Established in 1974, Lake Guntersville State Park (LGSP) encompasses...
(Photo) “Puddle Jumpers” Sculpture. Piece 1: Alabama Shakespeare Festival. Located about a 15-minute drive slightly southwest of downtown Montgomery AL is the Blount Cultural Park, home of the Alabama Shakespeare Festival (ASF) Theater. The ASF organization was...
(Photo) The “Gatlinburg Strip“. Piece 1: Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge. Located about one hour southeast of Knoxville TN is the popular tourist destination, Gatlinburg TN. For many years, the Gatlinburg area was simply a logging site. However, in the early 1900’s...
(Photo) “Christ of the Ozarks” Statue. Piece 1: Eureka Springs. Located in Northwest Arkansas within the OzarkMountains is the town of Eureka Springs. Established in 1879, the little community became a destination for people seeking relief from health maladies by...
(Photo) Upper Pontalba Building. Piece 1: French Quarter. Located just northeast of the New Orleans LA business district is the oldest neighborhood in the city, the French Quarter. It was established in 1718 around a central square known as the Vieux Carré, and...
(Photo) The Tennessee Aquarium. Piece 1: Tennessee Aquarium. Located in Chattanooga TN just north of downtown near the riverfront is the Tennessee Aquarium. The original building, known as “The River Journey”, opened in 1992 and focuses on freshwater creatures and...
(Photo) Fox Theater Stage View. Piece 1: Fox Theater. Located in Midtown Atlanta GA, the Fox Theater was established in the late 1920’s as one of the elaborately decorated “movie palaces” common across the United States in the early to mid part of the 20th Century....
(Photo) Truett’s Luau. Piece 1: Fayetteville GA. Located about 40 minutes south of downtown Atlanta is Fayetteville GA. Driving into the town on Veterans Parkway, we got a glimpse of the 24 soundstages at Trilith Studios, a large film and television production complex...
(Photo) Gateway Arch Monument. Piece 1: Gateway Arch and Museum. Located in downtown St. Louis MO just west of the Mississippi River within a 91-acre national park is the iconic Gateway Arch. The idea of erecting a monument in St. Louis to recognize the western...
(Photo) Elvis Tribute Artists. Piece 1: Tupelo Elvis Festival. Each year in June, the city of Tupelo MS hosts a festival to celebrate the life and musical legacy of Elvis Presley. The “King of Rock and Roll” was born in Tupelo in 1935, and his birth home (located in...
(Photo) A “Spirit” at Oakland Cemetery. Piece 1: Oakland Cemetery. Just east of downtown Atlanta in the city’s Grant Park community is historic Oakland Cemetery (248 Oakland Drive SE). Established in 1850, this 19th century graveyard has grown exponentially over the...
(Photo) Jack Daniel Statue. Piece 1: Jack Daniel’s Distillery Tour. Located about a 1.5-hour drive southeast of Nashville in Lynchburg TN is the Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Distillery (182 Lynchburg Highway). Upon arriving at the distillery’s visitor center, you will be...
(Photo) Ottenheimer Market Hall. Piece 1: Ottenheimer Market Hall/Riverfront Park. Located in the heart of downtown Little Rock AR, just west of Interstate 30 and adjacent to the south shore of the Arkansas River, is the ten-block River Market District. The District...
(Photo) Charleston City Market. Piece 1: The Battery/The Citadel/City Market. Charleston, a large coastal city in South Carolina, was founded in 1670 and named in honor of King Charles II. The area, replete with historical landmarks and colorful architecture, is one...
(Photo) “Mockingbird” Play Scene. Piece 1: To Kill A Mockingbird Play/Old Monroe County Courthouse. Monroeville AL is in the southern part of the state, about halfway between Montgomery and Mobile. It’s predominantly known as the place that gave the literary world Ms....
(Photo) Toomer’s Drugs. Piece 1: The Hotel at Auburn University/Toomers Drugs/Campus Walkabout. Auburn University (AU) in Auburn AL, located in the central part of the state just east of Montgomery, features an architecturally and horticulturally beautiful campus. For...