This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

The top of a giant mesa, just outside of Amarillo, appears to float in the sky above.

A wacky, UFO-shaped house in a suburban neighborhood.

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

A cemetery for only coon hounds in northwest Alabama.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

A small "palace" and museum made of, and devoted entirely, to salt.

This eight-mile stretch of road gets its name from a local legend about a lost soul searching for his head.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

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

This historic Civil War church has survived over a century of racial turmoil but still stands as a reminder of the town's roots.

$10,000 won in a poker game in 1884 allowed James Draughon to build this intriguing home.

This once lawless patch of land was home to an infamous and deadly land feud.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.