Places phildzielski Wants to Go

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

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

All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.

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

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

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

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

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

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

More than five miles of underground passageways.

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.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.