In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

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

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

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

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

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

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

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

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

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

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

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

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

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

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

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

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

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

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

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.