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

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

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

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

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

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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.

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

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

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

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

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

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

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.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

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