The grave of America's 11th president is not in some grand monument but instead it's hidden away on the grounds of the Tennessee Capital.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A trio of colossal statues spread across a Dallas neighborhood chart the emergence of a giant robot born of a locomotive and spilled gin.

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

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The world's tallest statue of an American hero.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.