Things to do in Greater Birmingham

Tour the 1911 church where a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing killed four girls, a landmark of the civil rights era.

Birmingham, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

See more than 1,000 motorcycles on display from over a century of production, plus a large collection of Lotus race cars.

Birmingham, AL

Walk through self-guided galleries that trace the Birmingham Campaign and the wider American civil rights movement.

Birmingham, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

Hike to granite overlooks and climb a stone tower on Cheaha Mountain, the highest point in Alabama.

Delta, AL

Walk among the blast furnaces and machinery of a Birmingham pig iron plant that ran from 1882 to 1971.

Birmingham, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

See NASCAR's 2.66-mile tri-oval with 33-degree banked turns, on race weekends or at the motorsports hall of fame next door.

Lincoln, AL

A Talladega museum honoring people who shaped motorsports as builders, drivers, engineers, and team owners.

Talladega, AL

Art museum in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, with general admission at no charge.

Birmingham, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

A national monument in Anniston commemorating the 1961 Freedom Riders and the bus attack that helped end segregated interstate travel.

Anniston, AL

A National Park Service monument in downtown Birmingham that preserves sites from the 1963 campaign against segregation.

Birmingham, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

A Greek Revival house from the 1840s with period decorative arts, set in gardens near downtown Birmingham.

Birmingham, ALTransit: reachable by public transit

A state park preserving a 19th-century iron-making complex, with furnace ruins, a gristmill, and trails along Roupes Creek.

McCalla, AL