Sip mead from an East Nashville apiary while snacking on barbacoa tacos.

Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

Pickles belong on pizza and this freewheeling outpost proves it.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Veritable museum of 20th century country music history.

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

The remains of this visionary community can still be found much as it was a century ago.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

A whimsical folk art garden full of punny pieces and a diorama containing 3,500 toys.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

This curious headstone is labeled simply as "The Queen."

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

The birthplace of the first author to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and poetry.

The longest non-mortared wall in the country is one man's tribute to his displaced Yuchi ancestor's five-year journey to her homeland.

Instead of becoming a power plant, this abandoned complex became a massive letdown.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

The former home of the 11th president of the United States.