Places Stefan Kowasch Wants to Go

The carved remains of a 200-year-old oak tree memorialize the namesake of the iconic "Wizard of Oz" character.

This monolithic statue was erected in honor of Chief Black Hawk (even if it wasn't made to look like him).

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

Tour the luxe "glass cage" that inspired and unnerved the architecture world upon its debut.

This urban drawbridge gained eternal pop culture fame when the Blues Brothers jumped it while it was raised.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.

You have to love a museum with a truly dedicated focus. A focus on Superman, for example.

This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.

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

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

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

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

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

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

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

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

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

Home of St. Urho, the fictional patron saint of Finland.