Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

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

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

More than five miles of underground passageways.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Seth Bullock, the sheriff of Deadwood, built this town immediately after Teddy Roosevelt’s death in 1919.

Dedicated to the history of the 1,000 nuclear missiles that once covered the Great Plains.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

Thanks to a loophole in property ownership, this alleyway has become a cacophonous street gallery.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

A royal relic from the time that gambling was accidentally made legal in South Carolina.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.

This set of rickety spaceships are prepared to give alien travelers a place to relax and go to the bathroom.