As the tale goes, late in the summer of 1817, a vicious, evil witch began to terrorize the Bell family on their Tennessee farm. She kept them up late at night with strange, eerie noises, violently... »

Rites and Rituals | Edited by atimian and HJHausman

Calling William K. Bass's center for forensic observation a "farm" is, in a lot of ways a bit of a misnomer. Rather than growing any particular product, this farm is focused on how organic... »

Strange Science | Edited by EmilyYaMei, atimian and others

By 1972 Star Trek had come and gone and the possibility of alien life was fully lodged into the cultural consciousness. Curtis King embraced this extraterrestrial vibe and built the Spaceship... »

Eccentric Homes, Outsider Architecture | Edited by serflac, atimian and others

This beautiful cavern includes a 3/4-mile talk through an intricate cave system that leads a huge number of visitor and tourists to an underground lake otherwise known as the Lost Sea. Once... »

Natural Wonders, Watery Wonders, Curious Caves | Edited by Myrandis and Nicholas Jackson

A vast cave system on the outskirts of Chattanooga, Tennessee - and about an hour drive from Knoxville - the Raccoon Mountain Caverns consists of more than five miles of underground passageways.... »

Natural Wonders, Extraordinary Flora | Edited by Myrandis, Nicholas Jackson and others

A mile-long cave system near Townsend, Tennessee, the Tuckaleechee Caverns reach depths of up to 150 feet, drawing in spelunkers from near and far. Nestled in the Great Smoky Mountains,... »

Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Curious Caves | Edited by Myrandis and Nicholas Jackson

Home to one of the largest waterfall drops in the United States (and the largest one east of the Mississippi River), Tennessee's Fall Creek Falls State Park has hosted several film shoots because... »

Natural Wonders, Geological Oddities, Extraordinary Flora | Edited by Myrandis and Nicholas Jackson

America's fireflies have been keeping a secret. In 1680, Dutch physician Engelbert Kaempfer, on a voyage down the Meinam River in Siam, recorded one of the earliest Western accounts of the... »

Natural Wonders, Fascinating Fauna, Bioluminescent Spots | Edited by Dylan, Josh and others

The National Civil Rights Museum doesn't look like a museum at all. It's located in perhaps one of the strangest places that a museum can be located in - an old motel, an old motel that retains... »

Museums and Collections, Memento Mori | Edited by Nicholas Jackson

Memphis is famous for its barbecue and for being the home of musicians as great and as different as Aretha Franklin and Elvis Presley. Silky O'sullivan's, a barbecue-friendly Irish pub on Beale... »

Bizarre Restaurants and Bars | Edited by S Lee, wythe and others