Places evretrogrrl Wants to Go

An enormous mural of a local Nashville resident adorns this abandoned silo.

Waterfalls, rapids, and top-notch swimming spots await in this densely forested corner of the Smokies.

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

This chestnut box will not be opened until the country music legend's 100th birthday in 2046.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

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

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

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

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

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

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

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

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

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

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

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.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Three bronze beauty queens welcome you to “Miss America University.”