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Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

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.

An engraved boulder marks the spot where Patsy Cline's life ended in a plane crash.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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

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

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

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

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.

The home of the artist credited with introducing the tomato to the American diet.

The first newspaper printed by an expeditionary force was published in this colonial mansion.

The widow of Benjamin Franklin's brother became the first female newspaper editor in the United States.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The idyllic colonial home of the artist behind the famous portraits of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

The only surviving fragment of the lost Narragansett Pier Casino.

This storybook New England home is actually a decommissioned lighthouse.

A single light illuminates one man's overshadowed contributions to street lamp history.