Places G Pike Wants to Go

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

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

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

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

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

This award-winning men's bathroom was just too beautiful to not allow women to see.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

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

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

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

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

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

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

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

More than five miles of underground passageways.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

A ship that lived many lives under many names is now known merely as the "Ghost Ship."

Featuring a Loretta Lynn display and a re-created coal mine exhibit.

Explore the flooded remains of a limestone mine in Kentucky.

A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

A shop for all your magical needs and notions.

He’s not from around here.