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

Moonbows over Kentucky.

At Bern's Steak House, there's always room for dessert—it's just upstairs.

Like Mardi Gras, only everyone's a pirate.

One of the last of the great 1920s movie palaces is a Floridian Greco-Spanish-Persian dreamscape.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

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

This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.

Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

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

While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.

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

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

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

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.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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

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

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.