The 25 Best Roadside Attractions in Alabama
Ranked by Roadtrippi users — the people who've actually been there. Updated April 2026. Roadtrippi catalogs 262 roadside attractions in Alabama.
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1. Mushroom Pizza Giants
Oxford, AL — ★ 5.0 (1 review)
Two scrap metal pizza characters, one over 20 ft. tall with a mushroom pizza on one arm.
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2. Rosa Parks Waits For Bus
Montgomery, AL — ★ 4.0 (1 review)
Bronze statue by Clydetta Fulmer stands on the spot where Rosa Parks waited for the bus on Dec. 1, 1955. Unveiled Dec. 1, 2019.
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3. Big Gold Peanut and Art Peanuts
Dothan, AL — ★ 3.5 (1 review)
The gold goober stands at the Visitor Information Center of Dothan, self-proclaimed "Peanut Capital of the World." Free map shows other fiberglass peanut statues around town.
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4. Shoe Tree
Cherokee, AL
Hundreds of pairs of shoes hang from a single tree. Easy to see in the winter. One of dozens of similarly chosen trees scattered across America, into which people feel compelled to hurl their shoes.
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5. Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament
Hanceville, AL
Old World style, fully functioning Roman Catholic basilica has a replica Shroud of Turin in the lower church, and suits of armor in the Castle san Miguel gift shop. It was the vision of TV celebrity nun Mother Angelica, who's buried here.
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6. Hollis Museum of Popular Culture
Dora, AL
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7. Ronald McWeevil
Enterprise, AL
If you thought Ronald McDonald was creepy, imagine him with four arms, a proboscis longer than Pinocchio's, and a Happy Meal. Nightmare meld of a clown and Enterprise's boll weevil mascot, rendered as a full-color statue.
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8. Literary Capital of Alabama
Monroevile, AL
Sculpture depicts three poor farm kids reading a copy of Harper Lee's famous novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," with a space on a bench for you to join the book revelry.
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9. Rosa Parks: Metal Surprise
Montgomery, AL
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10. Spear Hunting Museum
Summerdale, AL
Regular hunting wasn't hard enough. So Gene Morris (1934-2012) hunted big animals with spears -- special, extra-deadly spears that he designed himself.
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11. Dancin' Dave, Human Peanut
Headland, AL
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12. Sleep in a Lighthouse (Gone)
Cullman, AL
Dream of warning sailors while you sleep in a lighthouse on the lake.
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13. Airplane Gas Station
Vinemont, AL
Houston's gas station closed in 2010, but the yellow twin-engine 1939 Beechcraft 18 mounted above the pumps remained. The plane was restored in 2024, the gas station reopened in 2025.
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14. Railroad Museum and Model Train Exhibit
Foley, AL
A large model train layout with multiple trains in motion is the museum's big draw.
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15. Rear End of Pink Volkswagen
Ozark, AL
Diner owners take the rear half of a vintage pink Volkswagen Beetle and move it around their property; one day it appears to be embedded in a wall, the next day it may stick out of the parking lot.
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16. Statues of Styx River Water World (Gone)
Robertsdale, AL
Styx River Water World was home to several large statues -- and parts of statues -- that could be visited from its access road. Reported gone.
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17. Center of Alabama
Montevallo, AL
Upright slab of Alabama white marble, with an engraved outline of the state and a big star in the middle. Erected in 1955, even though the Center had been officially moved south, two years earlier, by the Submerged Lands Act. Montevallo obviously refused to accept this meddling b
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18. Mobile Medical Museum
Mobile, AL
Self-described as "the largest collection of medical memorabilia in the Southeast." See anatomical models, an iron lung, Civil War amputation saws, and a lovely bleeding bowl.
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19. Gaudy Mardi Gras Statues
Mobile, AL
Colorful outdoor statues of Mardi Gras kings and queens, jesters, and Chief Slacabamorinico, a local Mardi Gras Indian chief. Unveiled in 2016.
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20. Eerie Glowing Dismalites of Dismals Canyon
Phil Campbell, AL
The mysterious twinkling worms of Dismals Canyon can only be seen at night.
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21. Gas Station Crudely Shaped Like an Elephant
Roanoke, AL
Homemade sculpted eye-catcher reported over the years as an elephant, or giant gnarly teeth, but started as a fake rocky sea cliff that eventually lost its lighthouse.
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22. West Blocton Coke Ovens
West Blocton, AL
Coke was a necessity for iron ore smelting and steel manufacturing. In the late 19th/early 20th century, sites like this converted coal into coke for furnace use. The park contains the blobby ruins of 467 ovens.
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23. Four Big Adirondack Chairs
Ashville, AL
A line of four eight-foot-tall Adirondack Chairs acts as a billboard for a technical school.
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24. Big Rooster Made of Car Bumpers (Gone)
Brundidge, AL
Artist Larry Godwin built a 15-foot-tall chicken from chrome car bumpers in 1962. Disappeared by 2018.
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25. Giant Shrimp
Gulf Shores, AL
Giant pink shrimp on a stick, steps provided to get you to the right elevation for a photo op. Claimed to be the largest shrimp in the Southeast.
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