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(Photo) View of Railroad Park Piece 1: Railroad Park. Opened in 2010, Railroad Park sits on 19 acres in the heart of Downtown Birmingham AL, and is often referred to as “Birmingham’s Front Lawn.” The park's location is where major rail lines historically converged,...

(Photo) View of Tiny Town Village Piece 1: Tiny Town. Tiny Town, an intricate model village located at 374 Whittington Ave in Hot Springs AR, was created by Frank Moshinskie, who began making his miniatures in Louisiana in the 1930s when he was just 13 years old....

(Photo) View of Gulf State Park Beach Piece 1: Orange Beach/Gulf Shores. Orange Beach and Gulf Shores are adjacent gulf coast communities in South Alabama. They are popular tourist destinations known for their emerald waters and white-sand beaches. Another highlight...

(Photo) View of the Gem Theater. PIece 1: Gem Theater. The Gem Theatre in Calhoun GA (114 North Wall Street) has been recognized as one of the best live music venues in area. The facility opened in 1929 and has some wonderful architectural features, including an...

(Photo) Collage of images from Callaway Gardens. Piece 1: Callaway Gardens. Callaway Gardens is beautiful 2500-acre resort property nestled within the southernmost foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Pine Mountain GA. It was founded by Cason Callaway, a...

(Photo) A Collage of AHEC Images. Piece 1: Alabama Holocaust Education Center. Established in the early 2000’s, the Alabama Holocaust Education Center (AHEC) is a nonprofit organization that educates the public about the history and lessons of the Holocaust, the...

(Photo) View of the Blue Trail at Joe Wheeler State Park. Piece 1: Joe Wheeler State Park. Located at 4401 McLean Road in Rogersville AL is Joe Wheeler State Park. Established in 1949, this North Alabama public recreation area and resort sits alongside Wheeler Lake,...

(Photo) View of the Greenville Cypress Preserve. Piece 1: Greenville Cypress Preserve. In the 1930s, the Greenville MS Garden Club began efforts to save a unique natural area from planned urban development and, in 1940, purchased the site for a little over $3,000 and...

(Photo) Collage of images at Debardeleben Park. Piece 1: Debardeleben Park. Debardeleben Park is nestled in the heart of Bessemer AL. Covering an entire city block, the park was created when the city began to flourish as an industrial hub in the late 1800’s. It was...

(Photo) Key West Extreme Adventures Shark Tour. Piece 1: Old Town Key West/Historic District. Nestled at the southernmost tip of the continental United States, Key West FL is the end of the Florida Keys island chain, connected to the mainland by a series of bridges....

(Photo) Nature Trail on St. Joseph Peninsula. Piece 1: Port St. Joe. Located in the eastern part of the Florida Panhandle is the town of Port St. Joe. Founded in 1835, it was initially established as a Gulf Coast trading port. Today, Port St. Joe is largely a tourist...

(Photo) The Holly Theater Stage. Piece 1: Dahlonega. Each year, as the holiday season approaches, Dahlonega GA transforms into a living Christmas card. The town’s historic square, adorned with twinkling lights and beautifully decorated trees, has become an oft used...

(Photo) Protective Stadium. Piece 1: Protective Stadium. Located in downtown Birmingham AL at 1020 24th Street North, Protective Stadium is a state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue. Opened in October 2021, the facility has seating capacity for just over...

(Photo) The decorative Art Lounge at the Hunter Museum of American Art. Piece 1: Hunter Museum of Art. Located at 10 Bluff View in Chattanooga TN is the Hunter Museum of American Art. Established in 1952 and named in honor of philanthropist George Thomas Hunter, the...

(Photo) Bo Jackson Memorabilia at the ASHOF. Piece 1: Alabama Sports Hall of Fame. Established in 1967, the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame (ASHOF) is dedicated to celebrating and preserving the extraordinary achievements of Alabama's sports legends, from gridiron greats...

(Photo) Trail leading to Noccalula Falls. Piece 1: Noccalula Falls Park. Located about an hour south of Scottsboro AL, Noccalula Falls Park encompasses 500 acres of land. Opened in 1953 by the city of Gadsden AL, it is a must-see destination in Northeast Alabama. The...

(Photo) Lockheed GTD-21B Drone at the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham AL. Piece 1: Southern Museum of Flight. Located in Birmingham AL (4343 73rd Street North), about five minutes from the city’s international airport, is the Southern Museum of Flight (SMOF)....

  (Photo) Wheeler Wildlife Refuge in Decatur AL. Piece 1: Wheeler Wildlife Refuge. Nestled along the Tennessee River in Decatur AL lies the picturesque Wheeler Wildlife Refuge. Spanning over 35,000 acres of diverse habitats, this refuge is a haven for both...

(Photo) Entrance to Cullman German Christmas Market. Piece 1: The German Christmas Market in Cullman AL. Cullman AL was founded in 1873 by a Bavarian immigrant, Johann Cullmann, who felt the North Alabama region resembled his native Rhine Valley. Over the years, he...

(Photo) Statue of Former Miami Dolphins Coach Don Shula at Hard Rock Stadium. Piece 1: Hard Rock Stadium/Miami Dolphins Football. Hard Rock Stadium is located in the city of Miami Gardens about 16 miles north of downtown Miami FL. It was built in the mid-1980s to...

(Photo) Signage at entrance to the Pizitz Food Hall. Piece 1: Pizitz Food Hall/Sidewalk Film Center+Cinema. The Pizitz Food Hall is a publicly-accessible food court with multiple independent food vendors and restaurants situated around a large bar on the ground level...

(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...

(Photo) Nissan Stadium. Piece 1: Nissan Stadium-Tennessee Titans NFL Football. Nissan Stadium is a 70,000-seat sports venue located just across the Cumberland River from downtown Nashville TN that hosts professional and college football, professional soccer, and music...

(Photo) The Dali Museum. Piece 1: Museums (James Museum, Chihuly Collection, Dali Museum). St. Petersburg FL is just across the bay from Tampa, which is easily accessible from many airports in the Southeastern US. St. Petersburg has some extraordinary architectural...

(Photo) Moundville Archeological Park. Piece 1: Moundville Archeological Park. Located about 20 minutes south of Tuscaloosa AL traveling down old state highway 69, Moundville Archaeological Park is managed by the University of Alabama and includes close to 30...

(Photo) Edmund Pettus Bridge. Piece 1: St. James Hotel/Edmund Pettus Bridge. The St. James (built in 1837) is perhaps the only structure in Selma AL to survive the Civil War, as it was commandeered by Union troops as a headquarters. For our stay there, we requested a...

(Photo) PGA Tour Golf-Memphis. Piece 1: FedEx St. Jude Championship Golf Tournament. This event is held in August at the Tournament Players Club at Southwind in the eastern part of the Greater Memphis Area (near the Germantown suburb). Because it is the first of three...