This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

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

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

A heartwarming message to those entering and departing Music City from above.

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

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 museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

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

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

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

The birthplace of Appalachia's only first lady, who some have dubbed the United States' "first female president."

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

Edgar Allan Poe's old dorm is now a shrine to the author's legacy.

Berkeley Hot Springs presents to you "the only outdoor monument to presidential bathing."

The last holdout of a pre-Civil War rebel who took the matter of slavery into his own hands.

A dramatic, 360-degree recreation of Pickett's Charge in the Civil War.

A diorama of the Civil War, fought by cats.

The shared home of a utopian commune that practiced "free love" a century before the hippies.