Places mekelley94 Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

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

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Community owned and operated, this property is home to a diverse set of nudists.

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

The remains of the dam that unleashed a 15-foot wall of water on Denver.

The haunted reputation of these abandoned Colorado train tunnels is probably not helped by the terrifying spiked fence.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

An impressive collection of over 50,000 minerals including moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission.

Inspired by a music box, a small town Vietnam vet carved an entire carousel full of animals by hand.