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| Tourism And Recreation |
| Landmarks |
- Alabama Theatre
- Arlington House
- Legion Field
- Rickwood Field, built in 1910, America's oldest standing baseball
park. Website (http://www.rickwood.com)
- Kelly Ingram Park, site of notable Civil Rights protests
- Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. Website (http://www.slossfurnaces.com)
- Vulcan, (featuring the god Vulcan at his forge) the largest
cast iron statue in the world which was first cast for the 1904
St. Louis Exposition, and displayed on top of Red Mountain in
1938.
- WTTO Tower a 2000 ft / 609.6 m tall guyed mast communication
tower. (one of the tallest in the world.)
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| Major Attractions |
- Barber Motorsports Park (http://www.barbermotorsports.com)
is a $40 million motorsports complex that includes a 2.3 mile
(3.64 km) long track built to MotoGP specifications and a spacious
museum housing George Barber's world class collection of motorcycles
and racing cars. The park currently hosts Superbike and Sports
Car Grand Am races.
- The Birmingham Botanical Gardens is a 67 acre (270,000 m²)
park displaying a wide variety of plants in interpretive gardens,
including formal rose gardens, tropical greenhouses, and a large
Japanese Garden. The facility also includes a white-tablecloth
restaurant, meeting rooms, and an extensive reference library.
- The Birmingham Zoo is a large regional zoo with over 700 animals
and a recently-opened interactive children's zoo.
- The Riverchase Galleria mall hosts more than 200 retail stores,
a five-star hotel, and an office tower under the largest skylight
in the world in the suburb of Hoover. The anchors are JCPenney,
McRae's, Parisian, Proffitt's, Macy's, and Sears.
- The Talladega Superspeedway, located east of Birmingham, is
home to two of NASCAR circuit's annual races in April and October.
The speedway also has a Motorsports Hall of Fame museum.
- Visionland (http://www.visionland.com) is an amusement park
with two independent sections: Splash Beach Waterpark and Magic
Adventure Theme Park,. The theme park has 25 different thrill
rides including The Rampage wooden roller coaster and, Zoomerang,
a steel roller coaster purchased in 2004 from the Brisbane expo.
- The Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail (http://www.rtigolf.com),
a world-famous development of high-caliber public golf courses
throughout Alabama, includes two championship courses and a
an 18-hole short course in Oxmoor Valley just south of Birmingham.
- McWane Center (http://www.mcwane.org) is a science center and
IMAX Dome Theater located downtown with state-of-the-art permanent
and traveling educational exhibits.
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