Places middtenn Wants to Go

Visit a family-run restaurant that has been serving the epitome of soul food for more than seven decades.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This beautiful Miami garden was designed as a laboratory for tropical plants.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

An homage to Jackie Gleason's bus-driving character from 'The Honeymooners.'

Captain America, Sub-Mariner, and the Human Torch were all born in this art deco Manhattan masterpiece.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

At the largest railway museum in the United States, you can see everything from an early steam engine to a functioning Thomas the Tank Engine.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

A plaque marks a former safe house on the secret route, now hidden next to a McDonald's.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Classy up your Big Mac with bow-tied servers and chandeliers at the world's fanciest McDonald's.

A 2017 crowdfunding campaign saved this historic castle from being destroyed.

This café is dedicated to serving coffee roasted by Native American-owned companies.

Where else would a linchpin of post-colonial Native American cuisine anchor the menu but a museum?

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

The Quapaw tribe supplies the meat and produce in this Oklahoma casino restaurant.

This restaurant offers the original California cuisine.

Chef Lawrence West serves up Indian tacos, wojapi, and other Lakota dishes at the brick-and-mortar incarnation of his popular food truck.