Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

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

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

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.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

The lowest point in South Dakota and the source of the Minnesota River.

Known as "The Hill of the Little Devils."

This monument remembers one of the manliest men of the frontier who fought a grizzly before dragging himself 200 miles to safety.

An entire city block built completely out of petrified wood.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

Yes, this monument is aware that it is about 20 miles away from the actual center of the United States.

South Dakota's oldest operating brewery is housed inside a historic firehouse.

The highest point in South Dakota contains the ashes of Valentine McGillycuudy, the "Holy White Man."

The farthest you can be in the contiguous U.S. from a McDonald's location.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This prehistoric sinkhole lured exclusively male mammoths to their death, much to the delight of science.

The ravine where Jesse James supposedly performed an impossible jump to evade capture.