Places chrissyml Wants to Go

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

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

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.

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

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

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.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

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

Abandoned for 60 years, this submerged bridge was completely forgotten until the lake was drained.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

Seemingly straight out of a fairy tale, a steel chair sits on a tiny island only accessible by stepping stones.

An unusual sculpture, an interesting history, in a strange place, for a good cause.

Nature and art meet in this curvy creation

Visitors to this museum will find architectural oddities, an art gallery, and an unlikely bird sanctuary.

History is hiding at the Morean Center for Clay.

A small house sits between two huge rocks, with its back to the sea.

A collection of machines designed to break things for science.