Places FerdXcursions Wants to Go

The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."

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

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

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

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

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

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

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

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

This mansion turned restaurant was once a pitstop for Al Capone during his travels.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

This limestone outcropping was once a ceremonial site for ancient Native Americans.

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

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

This tiny 19th-century tunnel was built so a man could move his cows from one field to another.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.