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This popular park is home to a sea serpent sculpture that now overshadows the twisted history of its creation.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

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

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.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

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.

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.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

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