Places mattnoetzel Wants to Go

The highest waterfall between the Rockies and the Appalachian Mountains.

This century-old roadside attraction is full of bizarre rock formations.

A legendary boxing venue and ring featured in Rocky V.

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.

Feast on kebabs, dips, and house-made breads in the heart of Nashville’s Little Kurdistan.

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

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

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

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

A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

Elaborate drama imparts an appreciation for 19th century hardships.

These springs were once the source of a tourism boom to Sulphur Springs.

An outsider art studio that created a piece of work so popular they had to turn mainstream.

A mid-century telephone booth still stands, now a long-distance relic of the past.

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

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

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.