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A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

John Hendrix predicted the creation of the "Secret City" built as part of the Manhattan Project.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

One man has spent decades faithfully constructing this unique brick and cinderblock castle.

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

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

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

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

This large cave is a summer home to thousands of bats and has a rich history dating back to prehistoric times.

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

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.

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

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

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

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

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

This statue inspired by Renoir's famous painting embodies the jovial spirit of Key West.

Near the ruins of a Civil War coastal fortress lies the only known African refugee cemetery in the United States.

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

The highway's southernmost spot is a beloved local attraction.

The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.