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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

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

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

This memorial plaque remembers a strangely shallow maritime disaster known as "Chicago's Titanic."

The final resting place of a space program monolith.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

A rare kind of blue bear can be found chiefly in the national park that shares their name.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

A propulsion engine testbed that paved the way for the Space Shuttle launch sits without recognition at this rocket center.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.