This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

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

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

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

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

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

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

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

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

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

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.