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Alabama Tourist AttractionsGuide to roadside oddities and other strange, weird & unusual attractions in Alabama.
Five great Alabama tourist attractions are show caves. Caves are fun to explore. Some quirky roadside attractions in Alabama are hay sculptures and a big huge chair you can park your car under. Or you can choose a grotto, peaches or a visit to a cool little church built around a boulder.
Or is it the world's largest chair? There seem to be other chairs fighting for the title. Anyway, it's a big huge chair. Location: Outside of Miller Office Furniture, 625 Noble St, Anniston, AL.
Prehistoric Indians lived in Russell Cave for over 8,000 years. They left behind a bunch of stuff over that many years! And except for the walkways around the archeological exhibit, you can only get into Russell Cave with written permission from the superintendent. (That sounds like you’re in school — you can only go to the restroom with written permission from you teacher…) Anyway, if you want to take the “different” Russell Cave tour, either call or write: Russell Cave National Monument, 3729 County Road 98, Bridgeport, Alabama. 35740. Phone: (256) 495-2672
During Prohibition this cavern in north central Alabama was a speakeasy known as The Bloody Bucket. Nowadays, DeSoto Caverns is a roadside oddities stop with cave tours, panning for gems, the Lost Trail Maze and other attractions. Read what other travelers have to say about the Desoto Caverns. DeSoto Caverns is at 5181 DeSoto Caverns Parkway, Childersburg, AL. Phone: 1-800-933-2283
Lots of places cleverly "disguise" their water towers and thus, a roadside oddity is born. In Clanton, a huge peach towers over the town. This Alabama tourist attraction is just off the I-65.
Photo courtesy clanton.al.us. 
And if you're way into peaches, there's a big peach statue at Peach Park, peaches to buy and of course, peach ice cream. Peach Park is off I-65 Exit 205.
And if you're way into peaches, check out the peach water tower in
South Carolina.
At the Ave Maria Grotto, Jerusalem and other Biblical landmarks, plus shrines and other buildings from around the world, all come together in miniature. Made from concrete and stone and stuff sent from all around the world, a Benedictine monk created these reproductions over a span of 40 years.
Photo courtesy Ave Maria Grotto. Directions: Ave Maria Grotto is at 1600 Saint Bernard Abby Drive off of U.S. Highway 278, Cullman, Alabama. Phone: (256) 734-4110
Driving along U.S. 43 between Demopolis and Eutaw is not your average Alabama drive. Probably not even your average U.S. drive.
Some of the hay sculptures are a rabbit, a boat on waves of hay bales, the Tin Man with upside down bathtubs for feet, and a spider. There’s all sorts of other critters out in the pasture for motorists to gawk at, too. Plus he's got hay sculptures along the railroad tracks going though his farm so the train people can be entertained, too.
Location: Jim Bird's farm is just north of Demopolis, Alabama off U.S. 43.
Crosses and gutted appliances and crosses and rusting cars and more crosses, all with religious messages scrawled across them, are the highlights of Rice's Cross Garden. I think it's probably safe to say visionary artist W. C. Rice was into crosses. And getting his religious messages a-cross to the world. This Alabama tourist attraction is located on County Road 86 off Hwy. 82 in Prattville, AL.
No one can decide who inhabited the caves and built the stone wall protecting them-the Indians, the Welsh, or the Spaniards? The trail to get to the caves is 90 feet long and so narrow only one person can pass at a time.
DeSoto State Park has a bunch of cool waterfalls, too. Directions: DeSoto State Park is off the I-59 exits 218, 222, or 231. Then follow the signs. Phone: 1-800-568-8840
In Sequoyah Caverns, the Looking Glass Lakes reflect the wonders of the caverns in pools of sparkling water. That way you get to see it twice!
Sequoyah Caverns also has a Wild Cave Adventure. Through Big Mouth Cave where you go through crawls and tunnels. Location: Sequoyah Caverns is at 1438 County Road 731, Valley Head, AL Phone: (256) 635-0024 or 1-800-843-5098
At Rickwood Caverns blind cave fish and underground pools are a part of the mile long cavern tour. Rickwood Caverns, 370 Rickwood Park Road , Warrior, Alabama.
…in Cathedral Caverns… Highlights of this Alabama tourist attraction are The Frozen Waterfall and Goliath, a huge stalagmite column that goes all the way to the ceiling of the cave l45 feet above. Cathedral Caverns is at 637 Cave Rd., Woodville, AL.
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One day, Jim Bird’s hay baler went beserk and a new art form was invented. His farm positively teems with Alabama roadside oddities.
