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

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

The world's longest known cave system.

Ruins of a once-prized railroad station in New York.

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

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

Once a gas station, this flightless airplane beside the Old Dixie Highway now houses a barbershop.

This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

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

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

An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.

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

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

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

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.

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

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

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

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.