Sambusas get a Deep Southern twist at this Somali chai haven.

Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

East Nashville's oldest dive bar will bring you back to life with animal-style bar fare.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

Buttermilk biscuits so nice, you'll say “yay” twice.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

Fuel your honky-tonking with this venue's unbeatable “Recession Special.”

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

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

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

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.