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Rainy-Day PickAlabama Museum of Natural History
Check pricesSee a Basilosaurus whale replica, Ice Age fossils and the meteorite that struck a woman in 1954 in a grand hall on the University of Alabama campus.
Tuscaloosa, AL
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Quirky FunBoll Weevil Monument
Check pricesStop at the downtown fountain where a town thanked a cotton pest for pushing its farmers into peanuts.
Enterprise, AL
Sports & Outdoors
Outdoor AdventureCathedral Caverns State Park
Under $25Take a guided 90-minute walk through a cave with a 126-foot-wide mouth and Goliath, a stalagmite 45 feet tall.
Woodville, AL
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Rainy-Day PickAlabama Museum of Natural History
Check pricesSee a Basilosaurus whale replica, Ice Age fossils and the meteorite that struck a woman in 1954 in a grand hall on the University of Alabama campus.
Tuscaloosa, AL
Sightseeing
Quirky FunBoll Weevil Monument
Check pricesStop at the downtown fountain where a town thanked a cotton pest for pushing its farmers into peanuts.
Enterprise, AL
Sports & Outdoors
Outdoor AdventureCathedral Caverns State Park
Under $25Take a guided 90-minute walk through a cave with a 126-foot-wide mouth and Goliath, a stalagmite 45 feet tall.
Woodville, AL
Sightseeing
History BuffMoundville Archaeological Park
Under $25Climb a Mississippian platform mound and tour the Jones Museum at one of North America's largest ancient town sites.
Moundville, AL
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History BuffUnited States Army Aviation Museum
No admission feeWalk past a century of Army aircraft, from a Wright Model B replica to the RAH-66 Comanche, at a free museum on Fort Rucker.
Fort Rucker, AL
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University Mall
Check pricesA shopping mall in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, offering many retailers under one roof.
Tuscaloosa, AL
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Wiregrass Commons
Check pricesEnclosed shopping mall in Dothan, Alabama, with dozens of retailers, dining, and family entertainment.
Dothan, AL
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Alabama's smaller stops range from caves and ancient mound sites to museums on a college campus and an Army post. Near Woodville, Cathedral Caverns State Park leads tours past Goliath, a stalagmite 45 feet tall, and in Enterprise the Boll Weevil Monument, put up in 1919, honors the insect for its influence on the local farm economy. Moundville Archaeological Park near Tuscaloosa keeps 29 platform mounds around a plaza, the Alabama Museum of Natural History, founded in 1831, sits on the University of Alabama campus, and Bottle Creek Indian Mounds lies on a swampy island in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. On Fort Rucker, the free United States Army Aviation Museum shows Army aircraft from a Wright Model B replica to the RAH-66 Comanche.
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