today we traveled over to Coleman Alabama and there's a few reasons why we're here today [Music] quite a few episodes back you may remember my aunt and my wife's grandmother passed away within like a 24-hour period my aunt though she was cremated it was the intent that we would come bury her next to my grandmother and my grandfather from my mother's side afterwards so today we're in Coleman because that's what's happening right now we're having a little ceremony for with just the family and we're laying my aunt to rest so once we leave here there's also another location here in Coleman that is on my list of places to vlog that's one of the top 40 places to see in the state of Alabama we're going to leave here just a minute and head over there and check that out this is not a hit stone it says it's here to commemorate the people from Bailey's and where the cemetery is but it's a statue of Jesus being crucified on the cross just as an interesting little side note Coleman is home to the mega movie star Channing Tatum Channing Tatum was born and raised here in Coleman Alabama and then he moved to Wetumpka which I showed his route umka home in a previous video [Music] we've made it over to our next location now so today we're going to tour the Ava Maria grottoes here in Coleman Alabama the very first building says Bethlehem across the top of it but this is a reenactment of the birth of Jesus Christ you see baby Jesus there next to the sheep in under the manger if you didn't know by that monument the Ava Maria grotto is a religious museum it's located on the grounds of st. Bernard a B which is the only Monastery of men in the state of Alabama it was founded in 1891 consist of 125 stone and cement structures all done by hand it was all done by one monk who has lived here for 70 years but not only is there this museum here there is also other places like there's a preparatory school here there's a monastery here located on this campus interesting stone structure with a stained glass panel here in the back st. Peter this is a monastery a Mont recreation of a monastery this is a mock of st. Martin's Church in Bavaria 1392 also the Statue of Liberty there aunt Kateri this is the temple of the fairies model of the abbey college Church the library st. Bernard College established in 1892 and right behind it is the first building on the college grounds to the right of it the st. Bernard power house and it log cabins even further to the right there's some kind of demon alligator on a chain down there there's a chain around his neck the Cathedral of Immaculate Conception Mobile Alabama st. Augustine mission pala and California if any of you have been to the real locations put it down in the comments below let me know I would love to hear about that these are all Spanish missions this is the San Juan Capistrano from 1776 the San Miguel up there on the top st. Ignatius in Mexico the mysterious tower in Newport Rhode Island here's the old Spanish mission in San Antonio San Diego de alcalá first California mission founded by Father Junipero Serra 1769 there's also the kalam old mission right in front of us they're founded in 1777 of interest and down in front of it is mission deloria's in San Francisco oh oh it's the Alamo San Antonio Texas the San Fernando missionary California and Santa Barbara up there at the top the Karma of les Cinna Stix plants there's one surrounded by those rocks these models are spot-on I think there's a marble statue of Saint Therese there's some more Saint Ann's lemo and Rome that big building there on the top the atheneum which is in wrong right next to it all the way in the very top here is the ruins of the aqueduct of Rome this is st. Petersburg Church in Rome amazing detail and there's even the Roman Colosseum there well the rotunda of st. Stephen Chapel of st. Sixtus Scholastica in Italy the mausoleum of st. Lawrence the circular temple s Maria del Sol Basilica of Saint Paul in 1944 up there at the very top oh look at that it's one of the Great Pyramids of Giza right there he tucked up there at the very top the Leaning Tower of Pisa all along cerium on the upon way burial place of the Romans BC that is this here some of you may know some of you may not I've recently talked about it quite a few times but I am really fascinated with the history of ancient Rome and Spartacus is one of those fascinations who led the slave revolt against the Republic of Rome well Marcus Crassus who was the wealthiest man in Rome eventually killed Sportacus and capture most of uh soldiers now some of them did get free and they escaped into the mountains but the ones that did not get free he crucified them he hung them on crosses down the pion way for everybody to see that you don't mess with Rome and that made the apollyon way famous so in turn they built a huge mausoleum so when notable Romans like marcus crassus or julius caesar died they could be buried inside of that mausoleum just this structure here would have bent the affiant way they're using as the applying way and that there would have been the mausoleum those are catacombs that you see there on the inside to maybe give you a better reference of how tall that would be it'd be like us six or seven story tall building and on the inside of it will be nothing but the bodies of fallen Romans who were notable Romans who were in charge or had a lot of money yes bronze statue here is the statue of the monk who founded at one time there was a fountain here that's not working right now but this is brother Joseph is Odle creator of the Ava Maria grotto now we get back into some more miniaturization like Rachel's Tomb here at the bottom there's Bethlehem there they even have a Jesus being born in a manger scene the amazing detail that they put into building all this is absolutely breathtaking okay at the top is the door Mito Benedict I'm Abbey on Mount Zion the pavilack ax / grotto of the agony very very amazing detail right there that white building mixed in around with all the brown brick is the Church of Jerusalem st. Mary's will at Nazareth Abraham's Tunes the shrine of Saint Joseph they don't have the fountains running to the MU shrine in the Holy Land where st. John was baptized oh this is kind of far away to see but it's a mock of Jerusalem and just like the rest of it in amazing detail Noah's Ark Mount Arreat even have animals there's the towel of bevel the modern cathedral built by the Swiss missionaries and the tomb of Daniel in Persia there's another fountain not going this is Hanging Gardens at Babylon wow that's beautiful even so much as the to have the grass growing on it which is there in real life it's awesome there's a mark of the Great Wall of China Basilica in Fatima Portugal grotto and Basilica and Lourdes France monastery in Seoul Korea and cemetery for the st. Bernard boys who lost their life in Korea in 1950 1954 II but look I'm not ironing it's amazing how they made all these to look exactly like there here's the world's Beast Church and Hiroshima Japan sitting directly the top of where the first atom bomb fail they also have an area here chip more crossing across the path that's all of the miniature buildings here on the tour LEDs it's amazing the detail that they put into making those [Music] I was on my way back to the hotel and I was coming through the little small town of Attalla and they have this sitting off the side of the road apparently Attalla must be known for its trains they also have the outer steel beams from a train bridge here's will but this caboose is what caught my eye [Music] oh they have a padlock so you can't get in it inside of it's just some chairs like a bar area even it's like some beds those bridge railings were located right here pulling this bridge this used to be actually two train tracks there used to be a sit right here there's no longer there these train tracks sit right over the road the gap in between the two bridges where you can look right down to the road look at this old place here the country music Opera House for all of my Albarn Tiger friends out there at allé is where the famous Albarn runningback Cadillac Williams is from I have now made it back to the hotel and I'm gonna go ahead and in the video now seeing the Ava Maria grotto with the miniature buildings was really cool don't forget if you've ever been to the real building of any of those that I showed put it in the comments below I want to hear about it thank you all for watching I'll see you again tomorrow [Music] [Music]