Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
American painting, prints, studio glass, Southern regional art, decorative arts, and an important Bill Traylor group share the museum with ArtWorks and a sculpture garden.
United States: places and wildlife — page 56
Browse the published Explore collection for United States. Open a discovery for its field guide, practical details, and background.
Alabama Music Hall of Fame
Costumes, instruments, recordings, contracts, vehicles, and biographies connect Alabama-born performers with songwriters, producers, session players, and the Muscle Shoals industry.
McWane Science Center
Alabama fossils, an aquarium, physical-science interactives, early-childhood play, live animals, demonstrations, and an IMAX Dome make this a layered family science center.
Anniston Museum of Natural History
Birds of the Americas, Alabama environments, fossils, minerals, live-animal programs, and global habitat displays share a campus with the Berman Museum and Longleaf Botanical Gardens.
National Maritime Museum of the Gulf
Ship handling, navigation, weather, offshore industry, ports, marine science, and naval history fill a purpose-built riverfront museum overlooking active Mobile traffic.
Negro Southern League Museum
Uniforms, photographs, contracts, equipment, scorebooks, and the career of Birmingham Black Barons players recover a league built under segregation.
W. C. Handy Birthplace, Museum & Library
Handy’s reconstructed birthplace, piano, manuscripts, instruments, photographs, and personal objects connect a Florence childhood to touring, arranging, publishing, and the national circulation of blues form.
National Memorial for Peace and Justice
More than 800 weathering-steel monuments represent U.S. counties where racial-terror lynchings were documented, surrounded by sculpture, text, and duplicate columns intended for local claim.
Tuskegee Airmen National Historic Site
Hangars, aircraft, a control tower, film, photographs, oral histories, and training equipment preserve the field where Black military aviators and support crews challenged exclusion.
Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site
The Carver Museum, Booker T. Washington’s home, student-built architecture, laboratories, and active Tuskegee University campus connect education, self-determination, accommodation, protest, science, and institution building.
16th Street Baptist Church
The congregation’s sanctuary, Wales Window, memorial spaces, and history interpret its role in Birmingham organizing and the 1963 bombing that killed Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley.
Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church
The church where Martin Luther King Jr. served as pastor preserves its sanctuary, office, parsonage connections, and basement mural near the Alabama State Capitol.
Civil Rights Memorial Center
Maya Lin’s granite memorial and the adjacent center honor forty people killed during the modern civil-rights movement while connecting their stories to contemporary justice work.
Freedom Riders National Monument
Outdoor interpretation at the former Greyhound station and a second site west of Anniston mark where a Freedom Riders bus was attacked and then burned on Mother’s Day 1961.
Edmund Pettus Bridge
The Alabama River crossing marks where state troopers attacked voting-rights marchers on March 7, 1965, and where later Selma-to-Montgomery marches passed under federal protection.
Brown Chapel AME Church
Brown Chapel served as the starting point and organizing center for the 1965 voting-rights campaign and Selma-to-Montgomery marches, within the George Washington Carver Homes community.
Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark
Preserved furnaces, stoves, blowing engines, casting sheds, rail lines, and workers’ histories reveal how local ore, coal, and limestone built an industrial city.
USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park
USS Alabama, submarine USS Drum, aircraft, tanks, memorials, and interior compartments expose naval engineering and the labor of living inside war machines.
Fort Morgan State Historic Site
A masonry fort at Mobile Bay’s mouth layers the Battle of Mobile Bay, enslaved construction labor, harbor defense, changing artillery, and coastal ecology.
Fort Gaines
Ramparts, tunnels, cannons, bakery, blacksmith shop, and bay views make the fort’s relationship to Fort Morgan, naval channels, and Dauphin Island legible.
Horseshoe Bend National Military Park
A museum, overlook, battlefield road, river, and reconstructed barricade interpret the 1814 battle that devastated Red Stick Creek forces and accelerated U.S. seizure of Muscogee land.
Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Ruins, cemeteries, mapped streets, archaeological remains, and river landscape preserve the state’s first capital and later Black community rather than a reconstructed town.
Ivy Green: Helen Keller Birthplace
Keller’s birthplace, cottage, household objects, gardens, and the pump associated with her language breakthrough interpret family life, Anne Sullivan’s teaching, and a globally influential writer and activist.
Frank Lloyd Wright Rosenbaum House
The 1939 house, 1948 addition, built-in furniture, brick, cypress, radiant floor, and long garden axis preserve one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s clearest Usonian experiments.
Muscle Shoals Sound Studio
The original 3614 Jackson Highway control room, instruments, isolation spaces, photographs, and session history explain how the Swampers built a recognizable yet flexible sound.
FAME Recording Studios
Studio A, control rooms, instruments, photographs, and continuing sessions connect Rick Hall’s production culture with soul, country, rock, and generations of musicians.
Moundville Archaeological Park
Twenty-nine platform mounds, a central plaza, museum, river setting, and archaeological evidence preserve one of the largest Mississippian political and ceremonial centers.
Russell Cave National Monument
A boardwalk reaches the enormous shelter where deep stratified deposits record repeated Indigenous occupation, changing tools, foodways, climate, and trade over millennia.
Little River Canyon National Preserve
Clifftop overlooks, waterfalls, sandstone canyon, forest, pools, and whitewater protect one of the Southeast’s most dramatic plateau-river landscapes.
Cheaha State Park
Bald Rock, Pulpit Rock, CCC stonework, mountain forest, lake, and connections to the Pinhoti Trail make the state high point more than a drive-up tower.
Gulf State Park
Nine ecosystems, the Hugh S. Branyon Backcountry Trail, Lake Shelby, dunes, beach, pier, nature center, and wildlife corridors reveal far more than a resort shoreline.
DeSoto State Park
Forest trails, the West Fork of Little River, boardwalks, small falls, CCC structures, and the separate DeSoto Falls area create a broad Lookout Mountain park.
Oak Mountain State Park
More than 11,000 acres hold hiking and mountain-bike trails, Double Oak Lake, Peavine Falls, wildlife rehabilitation, overlooks, beaches, and campgrounds near Birmingham.
Cathedral Caverns State Park
A 126-foot-wide entrance, the huge Goliath stalagmite, flowstone, columns, and a paved guided route make subterranean time unusually legible.
Lake Guntersville State Park
Lakeside trails, lodge overlooks, hardwood forest, golf, camping, and a major bald-eagle wintering tradition spread across a broad Tennessee River reservoir landscape.
Sipsey Wilderness
The Bankhead National Forest’s wilderness protects bluff shelters, old forest, tributary canyons, waterfalls, and a dense trail network often called the Land of a Thousand Waterfalls.
Dismals Canyon
A cool privately protected canyon holds waterfalls, giant boulders, hemlock-like forest, and colonies of bioluminescent fungus gnat larvae known locally as dismalites.
Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge
Dunes, scrub, maritime forest, lagoon, freshwater wetlands, and beach provide crucial habitat for migratory birds, sea turtles, and the Alabama beach mouse amid intense coastal development.
Cahaba River National Wildlife Refuge
Shoals, forest, rare fish and mussels, and spectacular Cahaba lilies protect a segment of one of North America’s most biodiverse rivers.
Walls of Jericho Trail
A strenuous out-and-back drops from the Cumberland Plateau to Turkey Creek, Clark Cemetery, springs, and a high-walled limestone bowl on the Tennessee line.
Pinhoti Trail — Alabama
More than 170 Alabama miles connect Talladega National Forest, Cheaha, Dugger Mountain, road walks, shelters, and the Georgia line as part of the Eastern Continental Trail.
Mobile–Tensaw River Delta
The Blakeley, Spanish, Tensaw, Apalachee, and Mobile rivers spread through cypress swamp, marsh, bayous, islands, and estuary in one of the continent’s largest river deltas.
Natural Bridge Park
A short forest walk reaches a broad natural sandstone bridge, rock shelters, seeps, and weathered walls in northwestern Alabama.
Bellingrath Gardens and Home
Sixty-five acres combine an azalea ravine, rose garden, Asian garden, bayou overlooks, conservatory, Great Lawn, and a 1935 home shaped by architect George Rogers.
Huntsville Botanical Garden
A native-plant teaching garden, aquatic garden, woodland paths, children’s spaces, seasonal butterfly house, and changing displays spread across a large former soybean field.
Birmingham Botanical Gardens
Japanese gardens, native wildflowers, camellias, roses, tropical houses, Alabama woodlands, herbs, and a major horticultural library occupy 67 acres beside the zoo.
Aldridge Gardens
Thirty acres preserve the home of Snowflake hydrangea, native azaleas, a lake trail, bonsai terrace, bird habitat, and an extensive group of Frank Fleming sculptures.
Birmingham Zoo
African elephants, primates, predators, reptiles, birds, Alabama species, children’s areas, and conservation programs fill a hilly campus beside the botanical gardens.