This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

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

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

Over 100 concrete munitions bunkers are all that remain of a Pennsylvanian village seized by the US government.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

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

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

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

Steepest flood safety railway in the entire world.

Memorializing an American tragedy of massive proportions.

A tradition unlike any other, this marks the site of the annual Groundhog's Day tradition.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.