The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

This botanical garden has been nicknamed "Alabama's Little Corner of Greece."

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

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

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

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

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

World's largest collection of Coke-related items not held by the Coca-Cola company.

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

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

A historic dam made famous for its turbines and feature in a Hollywood classic.

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.