Places rubysage Wants to Go

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

The world's largest version of this iconic puzzle cube is located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

The pan man stands as a testament to the functionality of American cast iron cookware.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

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.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

It may take some time to locate, but it's sure to warm even a heart of stone.

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

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.

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

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

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

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

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

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

The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

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

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