This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.