Enjoy sweep­ing views of the city from one of the high­est points around. The muse­um offers a his­to­ry of Birm­ing­ham that would be inter­est­ing even to those who are just pass­ing through town. This is the world’s largest cast-iron sta­tus and pays trib­ute to Birm­ing­ham as an his­tor­i­cal cen­ter for iron and steel man­u­fac­ture.