Hoover is a fast-growing suburb known for its many golf courses, as well as the Riverchase Galleria, a massive mixed-use shopping, dining, office, and hotel development. Moss Rock Preserve, with its boulders and rock formations, as well as forested paths and streams, is popular with hikers and climbers. Hydrangeas are a highlight at Aldridge Gardens, which also features an art gallery, nature trails, and a lake.

Shelby County is located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census the population was 223,024. The county seat is Columbiana. Its largest city is Alabaster. The county is named in honor of Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky from 1792 to 1796 and again from 1812 to 1816.

Alabama is a southeastern U.S. state that’s home to significant landmarks from the American Civil Rights Movement. The city of Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church, now a museum, was a protest headquarters in the 1960s. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s church and the Rosa Parks Museum, dedicated to the activist, can be found in the capital of Montgomery.