Great Places to Visit in Alabama

Alabama, nicknamed "The Heart of Dixie" is thought for its heritage as a key southern state. nowadays the state contains an exciting mixture of recent and new. From traditional agricultural events to high-tech rocketry, there's something for everyone.

Some highlights to visit in Alabama include:

1. Ave Maria Grotto (in Cullman): conjointly called "Jerusalem in Miniature", and constructed by Brother Joseph Zoetti, a Benedictine monk, the Ave Maria Grotto is a four acre park containing 125 miniature reproductions of famous shrines and historical buildings from round the world.

2. Battleship Memorial Park (in Mobile): Home to the battleship USS Alabama, the submarine USS Drum, as well as many tanks and aircraft.

3. Bellingrath Gardens and residential (Southwest of Mobile): a good looking 65-acre garden estate that gives walking tours, cruises on the Fowl river, and is home to an award-winning rose garden.

4. Birmingham Museum of Art (in North Birmingham): Contains an outstanding assortment of over twenty one,000 works of art.

5. DeSoto Caverns Park (Southeast of Birmingham): offers guided tours through the state's biggest cave that is twelve stories high and bigger than a football field. There are a variety of family attractions within the park outside the caverns.

6. Early Works Museum complicated (in Huntsville): a formidable complicated of three history museums as well as a hands-on history museum for youngsters and a railroad museum.

7. International Motorsports Hall of Fame Museum (in Talladega): This museum, nearby to the Talladega Superspeedway records and celebrates the history of motorsports. Exhibits include the Budweiser rocket automotive that was the first automotive to break the speed of sound.

8. Noccalulua Falls Park (in Gadsden): A 250-acre public park containing a legendary waterwall, as wall caves, Indian and civil war carvings, a pioneer homesteed, a mini-golf course, a petting zoo, and more.

9. Robert Trent Jones Golf trail (throughout Alabama): a must for golf-lovers. The trail is a result of the largest golf course construction project ever attempted. and contains over four hundred holes spread across multiple sites round the state.

10. US house & Rocket Center (in Huntsville): contains the United States' largest assortment house memorabilia and rockets as well as the Pathfinder shuttle simulator and a Saturn V moon rocket.