Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

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

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

A former Oz-themed attraction that has fallen into disrepair, but still holds some of the original magic.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

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

The art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

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

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

A house built specifically to shelter the dead.

The former home of the 11th president of the United States.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

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

A theme park featuring a replica of Noah's Ark built to the measurements specified in the Bible.

A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.

Visitors to this Kentucky homestead turned museum are immediately transported back to the Antebellum south.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.