More reasons to visit The Magic City and Sweet Home Alabama

Here are some more of Liz Wells' 101 Reasons to Visit Birmingham (and Alabama)! Learn more about many of these via www.birminghamal.org/index.aspx

• Barber Vintage Sports Museum, the largest motorcycle museum in North America 
• The Birmingham Barons, an AA baseball farm team for the Chicago White Sox. 
• Birmingham Botanical Gardens, don’t miss the Japanese Gardens and Teahouse.
• Rickwood Field, completed in 1910 the oldest surviving baseball park in the US.
• Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - a museum and center for education and discussion about civil and human rights issues.
• Birmingham Museum of Art, the largest municipal art museum in the Southeast. 
• 5 Points South, a trendy district in Birmingham.    
• Oak Mountain State Park, outdoor recreation in 10,000 acres 30 minutes from downtown.
• The original Temptations and several of the Commodores hail from Alabama.
• The birthplace of Sara Mayfield, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and Tallulah Bankhead -- all were childhood friends!
• Miss America 1995, Birmingham's Heather Whitestone, was the first Miss America with a disability.
• Fort Condé in Mobile was built (1724-1735), by the French and was the headquarters for the colonial governments of the French, British and Spanish, taken by Americans in 1813.