More than a quarter million people pass through the doors of the Barber Motorsports Museum each year to enjoy the collection of some 1,600 vintage motorcycles, of which around 890 are on display at any given time. The collection includes 113 Harley-Davidsons and 55 vintage Lotus cars.
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Visitors to the USS ALABAMA Battleship Memorial Park in Mobile can not only tour the park's namesake battleship and National Historic Landmark, they can also tour the USS Drum, a submarine that patrolled from Pearl Harbor during WWII. Both vessels are open for self-guided tours, and the park also has on display a collection of 25 military aircraft.
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Alabama is home to the largest golf course construction project in history, the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail. This series of 26 courses and 468 holes at 11 sites throughout the state. Tee locations are pegged to ability level rather than age or gender.
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Covering 900 acres along the Fowl River, Bellingrath Gardens & Home includes 65 colorful cultivated acres where there's always something in bloom, no matter the time of year. Highlights of the garden include 400 varieties of camellias in winter, colorful azaleas throughout the garden in spring, roses and hydrangeas in summer and cascading chrysanthemums in autumn.
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Montgomery's Alabama Shakespeare Festival serves as Alabama's state theater that hosts around 10 productions each season (including two by Shakespeare). It's the largest professional theater in the state and one of the largest Shakespeare festivals in the world.
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For six years, the building that currently houses the Dexter Parsonage Museum served as the home of Martin Luther King and his family. The parsonage was the home to 12 Baptist pastors, before it was turned into a memorial and museum. Also on site: the Interpretive Center, where you can see videos, photos and discussions related to MLK and the 12 Dexter pastors, and the King-Johns Garden for Reflection, with its circle pathway that represents unity. The parsonage even contains authentic furniture that King himself is said to have used.
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Much of the Little River's length is along the top of Alabama's Lookout Mountain, and its waterfalls, bluffs, pools and cliffs create a playground for outdoor activity in the Southern Appalachians. 
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Huntsville's U.S. Space & Rocket Center celebrates our nation's space program through artifacts, hands-on exhibits, simulators and theaters. The museum is home to one of only three authentic Saturn moon rockets in the world and hosts week-long space, aviation and robotics camps for kids.
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From Mobile to Dauphin Island, the gulf coast of Alabama is lined with sugar white sand beaches and gentle, turquoise gulf waters, beckoning visitors to swim, sun, fish or birdwatch.
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Vulcan, standing tall over Birmingham, is the world's largest cast iron statue at 56 feet tall. Made from some 100,000 pounds of metal to showcase the local iron industry at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, the statue overlooking the city from Red Mountain depicts the Roman god of fire and the forge.
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