An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

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

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The only swimming pool listed on the National Register of Historic Places is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

This abandoned amusement park was built on a site with a dark history.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Named for a Greek oracle that interpreted the words of Zeus, this beautifully-restored manor home was once home to the architect of the Marshall Plan.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.

An elegant garden commemorating the 1841 visit from apostle and missionary, Orson Hyde.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

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

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

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

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

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