This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

Unique tower has outlasted a takeover of the company.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

The world's longest known cave system.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

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

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

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

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

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