Places ch1k822 Wants to Go

In the 1920s, this stretch of Roanoke became home to a thriving Black community.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.

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

Stroll around the headstones of notable figures from Knoxville's history, as well as towering monoliths and melancholic headstones.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

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

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

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

An ode to iconic Nashville locations.

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

This alleyway was named to honor the memory of a beloved local dog.

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

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

The final resting place of the founder of a beloved national sausage brand.

Jack White's record store is the only place in the world that records live shows direct-to-acetate.

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.

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.

A rainbow of kulfi and falooda flows from this Indian-style ice cream parlor.

An attack on a prominent Black attorney's house sparked a watershed moment in Nashville's civil rights movement.

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

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

At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.