Behold the rickety wooden glory of the world's oldest operating roller coaster.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

This architectural onion has an original 1930's Jerry O'Mahony dining car at its core.

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

A Byzantine-style concrete artwork pays tribute to a 17th-century saint.

Buffalo's abandoned concrete grain elevators are getting a second life.

An out-of-the-way wildlife haven with a rich and storied past of harboring thousands of fugitive slaves, or "Maroons" during the mid 1800s.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

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

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

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

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.

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

Mysterious installations bring levity and light to a sometimes stodgy city.