While filling up your gas tank in eastern Kentucky, you just might stumble into this collection of country music memorabilia.

This tombstone marks the final resting place of the beloved 1990's character, Ernest P. Worrell.

The oldest operating Mississippi River–style steamboat still navigates the Ohio River.

You can climb to the summit of Black Mountain, as long as you sign the waiver.

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

Rabbit Hash is a heaping slice of Americana from another era, with a very peculiar origin behind its unusual name.

Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

An enormous natural sandstone bridge in Kentucky.

The grave of the iconic Kentucky Fried Chicken mascot features a bust of the man behind the goatee.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

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

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

This building contains handprints that are well over a century old.

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

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

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

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

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

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

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