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

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

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

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

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

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.