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

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

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

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

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

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

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

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

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

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

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

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.

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

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.

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

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

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

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.