Napa Chardonnay or an Australian Shiraz? It’s not the choice you usually have to make at a movie theater, but Huntsville’s Monaco Pictures, where guests can sample 32 different wines from a selfservice machine, isn’t your typical multiplex. Perhaps it makes sense that the city that launched astronauts to the moon has a space-age wine bar, but it’s hardly the only surprise north Alabama’s metro area has to offer. Across town, artists have taken over Lowe Mill, a former industrial site now filled with dozens of galleries featuring everything from glassblowing to percussion instruments crafted from bamboo grown in Madison County. And, in what may be a first in the art world, dogs on leashes are welcome. From a child’s perspec...