Asheville, North Carolina
Biltmore McDonald's
Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.
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Asheville, North Carolina
Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.
Asheville, North Carolina
This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Townsend, Tennessee
This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.
Sevierville, Tennessee
An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."
Alcoa, Tennessee
One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.
Sevierville, Tennessee
While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.
Jackson, Tennessee
This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.
Petros, Tennessee
This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.
Nashville, Tennessee
At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.
Nashville, Tennessee
This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Sevierville, Tennessee
Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.
Manassas, Virginia
This Federal-style plantation house was once visited by Abraham Lincoln to meet with generals during the Civil War.
Winchester, Virginia
A natural spring situated on the grounds of the Hawthorne estate.
Alexandria, Virginia
The final resting place of an unidentified revolutionary soldier sits behind a Virginia church.
Hopewell, Virginia
For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.
Arlington, Virginia
Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Scenic mount trashmore, Virginia Beach's most curious waterfront still has a couple of secrets.