Places explorationanddecay Wants to Go

An oddly specific collection of handmade dolls remembers the women of the White House.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The marker offers a rare chance to be in four U.S. states at once, though there's some controversy over its geographic accuracy.

A replica that won't float away.

Follow the steps, and this roadside artwork will teach you how to dance.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

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

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

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

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

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

Mysterious library of an infamous financier and spiritual seeker.

The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

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

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

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

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

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

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