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The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

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

This abstract roadside poultry was saved from demolition by outraged drivers and pilots.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

Famous for its bio-luminescent inhabitants, known as "dismalites."

An abandoned railroad tunnel forgotten by time awaits inquisitive hikers.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

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

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Incredible miniature towns and buildings created and decorated with thousands of tiny rocks.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

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

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

Victorian-era Egyptomania left its mark on this Nashville landmark.

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

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

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.