The tiny town of Magnolia Springs, Alabama, is an oasis of calm a few miles inland from the bustling Gulf beachfront. The village, which...

SummerTide, the University of  Alabama's  professional summer theatre, returns to Gulf Shores in June, 2021, with "Starting Here, Starting Now," a musical revue featuring the songs of  award-winning Broadway veterans Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire.

It all started with dinosaurs (yeah, I know, lots of things did). Wealthy Alabama businessman George Barber had commissioned artist Mark Cline to create some dinosaurs, a move guaranteed to add interest to one of Barber's properties. In 2006, Cline was on-site, directing repairs to the giant beasts when Barber broached the subject of Stonehenge. Not exactly all in a day's work, but Cline had previous experience building a Stonehenge replica from Styrofoam (and of course it's known as Foamhenge). By 2012, Barber had selected the ideal spot for his own Stonehenge:  the spacious grounds of Barber Marina, on the Intracoastal Waterway inland from Orange Beach, Alabama.

Each Spring, visitors to Bellingrath Gardens, near Mobile, Alabama, can wander through a fairyland of more than 250,000 spectacular azaleas in full bloom.

Located in Huntsville, Alabama, the U.S. Space and Rocket Center serves as the official NASA Visitor Center for Marshall Space Flight Center, home to development of the Space Launch System-- the most powerful rocket ever designed—which will carry human explorers to an asteroid and to Mars.