welcome everyone it's a beautiful Alabama day 70 degrees out again all the snows gone the long sleeves are gone currently getting gas right now it's early in the morning and that's because today I'm traveling [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] a couple hours away from Montgomery in Birmingham Alabama sits this magnificent statue today I'm at Vulcan Park the Vulcan is named after the Norse god Vulcan who is the god of forge and steel he was placed here because the city was built off the steel industry left an interesting little toy here come parks it's right off the edge of downtown Birmingham so from the Vulcan you can see the entirety of Birmingham you can also go inside of the Vulcan which is where I'm hitting now you get up to the top you can take the elevator or you can walk up the stairs I think we'll take the elevator [Music] Braun the outer deck here at the Balkan [Music] on this outer deck you can see the Vulcan statues right here above us you can't go any higher than this though the ground out in front of the Vulcan Center is a map of Birmingham this is the wall you see right when you come in the Vulcan Center all the ironworks really picks their early days when Birmingham was being founded for when geologists picked Birmingham for it they picked it because the materials needed to make steel and iron were located in the ground here there's the Vulcan Thomas area behind it and please with cans of food this whole baseball flyer here is zip code versus the coal barons Friday August 15 that riff would feel a dollar-for-dollar children $0.50 the team's name now is the Birmingham Barons instead of the coal barons and they were made famous when the great basketball player Michael Jordan switched over to baseball and played for the Birmingham Barons here's the Vulcan under construction 1999 this is what it looked like when it was shut down and restored and in 2004 it opened as it stands now they also changed this piece here with the arrow here's the neat pictures of its building this piece that was on the previous Vulcan before the restaurant is standing right here on the wall behind me see the lights on it how they're green right now before the restoration if all the roads were clear and everything was good as far as traffic goes it would stay green but if there were wrecks on the highway they would turn it red you can see it from so far away that you would know whether or not the roads were clear to drive on auto mock-up of Vulcan [Music] here's an actual racecar on the wall here behind me or racing memorabilia this whole room is dedicated to racing there's an actual upper intake carburetor an air filter and they have it linked down here to this pedal so you can match the pedal and see what happens to the carburetor [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] if you didn't notice Carl there's another anvil this info Vulcan Park we saw the giant Vulcan and the museum that goes along with it now I'm gonna head to another location here in Birmingham I'm still in Birmingham but I'm at my next location now when you see where I'm at you might think maybe I went all the way to New York City but no I didn't I'm still in Birmingham and I've stopped in Birmingham to see the Statue of Liberty this replica Statue of Liberty is one-fifth the size of the real Statue of Liberty in New York and it was put here by Frank Stamper the owner of Liberty National Life Insurance the statue is made completely of bronze can you imagine the amount of bronze it took to make that statue the Statue of Liberty is located directly beside the Boy Scouts of America [Music] behind me on this wall is a list of every person that has achieved their Eagle Scouts it goes all the way back to 1929 they have also erected a giant eagle here's a bronze statue of three young children and it was erected her of Arthur Leonard Manning already Manning part of the Manning family [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's gonna do it for our time in Birmingham we got several hours to get back home so we're gonna head on home I'm gonna end the video now I hope you enjoyed this episode thank you all for watching I will see you tomorrow [Music] [Applause] [Music]