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

Giant works of art interspersed throughout meadows and woodlands offer a new discovery at every turn.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

The show pony of cave systems, Fantastic Caverns manages to live up to its name.

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.

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

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

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

The highest point in Tennessee, Clingmans Dome bears witness to the ravages of one type of insect.

See just what life was like in a 19th-century prospecting town.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

Ruins of an American Civil War iron forge still survive today.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

A 120-year-old legend concerning an empty circular patch in the North Carolina woods.

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

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

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.