This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

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

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

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

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The Cadillac Ranch for monster truck aficionados.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

Practice your Dirty Dancing lifts in the manmade lake where Johnny Castle himself did.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

This ceremonial mound is one of the first officially recognized Native American historical sites in North Carolina.

One of the best places to see feral Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie The Fugitive can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.