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

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.

Visitors to this arboretum are greeted by three smiling giants crafted from sustainable materials.

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

An enormous mural of a local Nashville resident adorns this abandoned silo.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

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

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

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

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

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

More than five miles of underground passageways.

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

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

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

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

A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.

In the Shawnee National Forest, amazing rock formations peer through the treeline.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

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

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.