Places Michael Barera Wants to Go

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

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.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

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.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

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

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

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

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

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

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

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

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

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.

The ruins of Theodore Roosevelt's beloved ranch stand in a forgotten corner of a national park named after him.

The U.S.' first commercial park dedicated entirely to flying drones.