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These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

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

This giant iron playfully pays tribute to an early 20th-century architectural trend.

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

A unique home built by Andrew Jackson Caldwell that also served as a military hospital.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

Over 100 lasers, including huge ones that look straight off a sci-fi set.

This collection of vintage signs reflects the long and colorful history of this Arizona town.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This refurbished gas station is one of the oldest in Texas, located on the original Route 66.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

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

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

The world's largest version of this iconic puzzle cube is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."