An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

Stroll around the headstones of notable figures from Knoxville's history, as well as towering monoliths and melancholic headstones.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

This fountain was commissioned by a mother grieving over her son's passing.

The remains of the left arm of the levitating philosopher-saint are kept in a 13th-century Neapolitan basilica.

The severed head of a 17th-century Irish martyr lies within an intricate golden shrine.

The relics of dozens of martyrs are stored in a single chapel.

A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.

This sword isn't waiting for a king to pull it out. It was placed there by a saint.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.

A beautiful South Korean gate and garden in Little Rock honors American Taekwondo.

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

Local legend says that someone is buried in the trunk.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.