Places Annie Oortman Wants to Go

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

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

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

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

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

This museum dedicated to an oft-overlooked support industry features a surprisingly moving brass diorama of a man being saved from a sinking car.

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

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

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

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

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