Places chrissyml Wants to Go

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

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

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

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The first KFC is on the National Register of Historic Places.

World's largest collection of Coke-related items not held by the Coca-Cola company.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

An equine tribute in a charming Southern city that calls itself "The Horse Capital of the World."

This calm grassy field was once a Superfund site full of thousands of nasty chemicals.

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.

The Trappist monk, prophet-poet, and rebel never really got to live out the eremitic life he was seeking.

Visitors to this Kentucky homestead turned museum are immediately transported back to the Antebellum south.

A life-sized memorial to Harry L. Collins, the official corporate magician of Frito-Lay.

A collection of outdoor art by renowned muralist Robert Dafford depicts the history of a flooded city.

A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

This huge clock made of flowers and simple machinery was once used a political weapon.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.