Townsend, Tennessee
Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church
This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.
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Townsend, Tennessee
This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.
Maggie Valley, North Carolina
A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.
Nashville, Tennessee
A heartwarming message to those entering and departing Music City from above.
Leh, India
Over 3 miles up in the Himalayas this pass is one of the highest drivable roads in the world.
Bon Aqua, Tennessee
A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.
Camden, Tennessee
An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.
Scottsboro, Alabama
One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.
Leeds, Alabama
This 880-acre facility is home to a massive collection of vintage motorcycles and cars, as well as a 2.38-mile race course.
Estes Park, Colorado
Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."
South Pittsburg, Tennessee
This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.
South Pittsburg, Tennessee
The pan man stands as a testament to the functionality of American cast iron cookware.
Nashville, Tennessee
The small cave that housed Tennessee's "first citizen."
Petros, Tennessee
This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.
Paris, Tennessee
A 70-foot replica of the famed Eiffel Tower.
Charleston, Missouri
This curious headstone is labeled simply as "The Queen."
Cairo, Illinois
The lowest point in the state of Illinois, at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers.
Cairo, Illinois
A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.
Calico Rock, Arkansas
An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.
Norfork, Arkansas
Peak named for an old man who liked to run in the nude.
Yellville, Arkansas
The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.
Erin, Tennessee
Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.
Palmyra, Tennessee
Crumbling Kennedys and a decaying Tecumseh are just some of the haunting remains of one man's cement art trail.
Piggott, Arkansas
Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.