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

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

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

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

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

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.

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

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

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

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

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

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

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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.

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.

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.