Griff Rhys Jones explores Alabama, the US state that Americans least want to visit, but which has seen a rise in hi-tech organisations setting up business there in recent years. He visits Birmingham, an industrial city inspired by the revolution in England, which lies in the middle of Tornado Alley and is prone to hurricanes too.

Griff Rhys Jones' penultimate pitstop is New Orleans, Louisiana, where the mighty Mississippi flows into the Gulf of Mexico from this delta territory, and where tourists can experience unique cuisine and soak up the musical streets where jazz music was born.