Clinton, Tennessee
Whirlwind Mansion
This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.
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Clinton, Tennessee
This Tennessee manse was built so opulent that the very utilities doomed it to fail.
Murfreesboro, Tennessee
Built in the 19th century, this bucket has been to two World’s Fairs.
Lawrenceburg, Tennessee
The final resting place of the man who started Southern Gospel Music.
Byrdstown, Tennessee
The longest-serving U.S. Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner was born in this humble cabin.
Nashville, Tennessee
An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.
Westmoreland, Tennessee
This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.
Sewanee, Tennessee
A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.
Cave City, Kentucky
A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.
Guthrie, Kentucky
The birthplace of the first author to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction and poetry.
Lexington, Kentucky
The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.
Maysville, Kentucky
This small museum is kept in a house that was integral to the genesis of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Petersburg, Kentucky
A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.
Corbin, Kentucky
The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Lorton, Virginia
A small, forgotten prison cemetery marked only by a wrought-iron fence and eerie depressions left in the ground.
Leesburg, Virginia
This giant 200-year-old ginkgo is one of the largest in the United States.
Arlington, Virginia
Remnants of a wall built to separate Black residents of Hall's Hill from a newly built subdivision are a grim reminder of segregation in 20th-century Virginia.
Manassas, Virginia
This train station inspired the name of a 1970's rock band and provided the backdrop for their album cover.
Norfolk, Virginia
A sculpture made from recycled materials and hand-blown glass dedicated to transportation and transformation.
Richmond, Virginia
In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.
Williamsburg, Virginia
Home to the organ played at General MacArthur's funeral.
Wytheville, Virginia
A 100-foot metal tower and swinging bridge that provides stunning views of mountains in five states.
Charlottesville, Virginia
Anna Anderson spent most of her life claiming to be the lost Romanov child Anastasia.
Arlington, Virginia
The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.