Places candmthurman Wants to Go

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

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

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

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

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

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

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

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

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

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

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

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

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

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

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

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

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