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

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

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

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

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

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

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

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

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.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

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

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

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

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.

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

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