A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

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

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

Some North Carolina Cherokee have been keeping their history alive for decades with a single play.

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

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

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

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

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

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

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

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.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

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