Places nicoleertl Wants to Go

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

This abandoned nuclear cooling tower casts a shadow over a bucolic town.

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

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

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

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Hiding behind a grocery store is a spectacular cavern carved as part of an old limestone quarry.

This park contains one of the largest concentrations of cedar glades, a unique and rare ecosystem.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

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

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

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

Railroad came. People came. Railroad left. Town died.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

America's oldest drive-in movie theater has been in continuous operation since 1934.

This Art Deco service station has been providing tune-ups and turning heads for close to a century.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

The final resting place of the Hollywood star who came to a tragic end.

Once used to screen films for theater owners to rent, this historic building is now a start up hub.

An occult-y, historic hotel with the World's Largest Ouija board on the roof.