Made famous by Ansel Adams and other prominent landscape photographers, the Alabama Hills is an intriguing array of hills and rock formations in the Eastern Sierra Nevada near Lone Pine, California. It is an iconic location for photography that abounds in aesthetic opportunities. It was dubbed the "Alabama" Hills by a group of miners who were loyal to the confederacy in the American Civil War. It was named after a Confederate war ship. I'm not sure why it stuck, considering the Confederacy lost the war and California is no where near the Deep South.