A grave makes an unusual tourist attraction, particularly when it's the burial site of a 4-year-old girl who died in 1933. But a little girl named Nadine Earles has one of the most visited graves in Alabama, and perhaps the South.

The child's grave in Oakwood Cemetery, in Lanett, is covered with a unique mausoleum – a brick house known as Little Nadine's Playhouse. When Nadine became sick with diphtheria at age 4, her parents, Julian and Alma Earles, were understandably distraught.

At his sick daughter's pleadings of "Me want it now," Julian Earles had been building the playhouse as a Christmas gift but when his beloved daughter died on Dec. 18, the house became her mausoleum.

The inscription on the grave inside reads:

Our darling little girl

Sweetest in the world

Little Nadine Earles

"Me want it now"

The house, complete with paned windows, awnings, a lawn and walkway, is filled with toys. After their deaths, Nadine's parents were buried in the "yard" of the little house. The unusual gravesite has appeared in a Ripley's Believe It or Not book and was featured in a story I wrote for the book "Weird US: The ODDyssey Continues."

Nadine's mausoleum is a rarity because it is a full-sized child's playhouse but there are a few dollhouse gravesites across the country. Here are a few I gathered for my book "Forgotten Tales of Tennessee:"

The Dollhouse Grave of Medina, Tenn.

The grave of Dorothy Marie Harvey is marked with a playhouse. Dorothy died in 1931 at age 5 after contracting measles in Medina while traveling with her family. She was buried in Hope Hill Cemetery beneath a playhouse. According to legend, she loved dolls so the tiny house was filled with dolls and toys. The house has been replaced by caring townspeople over the years as it has deteriorated.

Lova's Dollhouse in Arlington, Ind.

Lova Cline was born in 1902 and died in 1908. Her grief-stricken father built a small house to place atop her grave in Arlington East Hill Cemetery. Dolls and miniature toys are visible through the curtained windows. Her parents, Mary and George, are buried in front of the little house.

The Victorian Dollhouse Grave in Connersville, Ind.

Vivian May Allison, who died at age 7 in 1899, is buried in Connersville City Cemetery beneath a Victorian-looking dollhouse with green trim. Visitors who peer through the glass will see a carpeted room filled with miniature furniture and dolls. Over the years, benefactors have also repaired this house. A plaque leaning on an inside window is inscribed:

Vivian May Allison

May 5, 1892-Oct. 20, 1899

Constructed by her parents

Horace and Carrie H. Young Allison

Refurbished July 1991

The Lost 100-year-old Dollhouse Grave, Somerville, N.J.

When 12-year-old Lizzie Eckel died in 1882, her parents erected a glass dollhouse on her grave in Coontown Cemetery in Somerville, N.J. For 100 years, it marked the child's grave until it was eventually destroyed by vandals in 1982. Read more here. The grave still has a stone marker.