Places esftripod Wants to Go

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

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.

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

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

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

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

Dinosaurs invade a suburban 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.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

This demolished goliath of American industry once loomed over the depressed town it once made thrive.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Priceless space junk on display in front of a local Dairy Queen.

This decommissioned surface-to-surface missile resides outside the American Legion Post in Pennslyvania.

This 15-foot tall obelisk commemorating the Philadelphia-Baltimore railroad connection sat neglected for over a century.

This extraordinary Depression-era expenditure was modeled after a postcard of a Mediterranean hotel.

The site of America's first commercial oil well essentially disappeared after the town went bust.

The largest clock face in the United States is twice the size of Big Ben and infinitely more ad-sponsored.

In the bowels of a 19th-century brewery lurks a fine-dining restaurant offering an array of themed feasts.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

For decades, it has disappeared and reappeared as water levels rise and fall.

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?