Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

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

A museum dedicated to man's boldest venture.

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

Erosion and time have created a naturally-formed water park.

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

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

A wild trout fishery in Arkansas.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This Little Rock legend has survived decades of rowdy crowds, three fires, and a zombie wedding.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.