Places FerdXcursions Wants to Go

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

One man’s religious convictions led him to build this stone castle meant to withstand an apocalypse.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.

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

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

This stone incorrectly marks the 35th parallel, causing some territorial kerfuffles.

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.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

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

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

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

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

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

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

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