Peebles, Ohio
The Great Serpent Mound
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
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Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Dayton, Ohio
You can walk through the first Boeing Air Force One, which famously carried JFK's casket from Dallas back to D.C.
Riverside, Ohio
Inside houses a vast collection of military aircraft and missiles spanning the ages.
Union, Kentucky
A life-sized recreation of the megafauna that once roamed this region is a feature at the birthplace of American paleontology.
West Chester, Ohio
A 25,000-square-foot display with dozens of model trains in intricate miniature worlds.
Fairfield, Ohio
An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.
Cincinnati, Ohio
Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.
Cincinnati, Ohio
An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.
Chattanooga, Tennessee
This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.
Memphis, Tennessee
The 10th-tallest pyramid in the world, this former sports arena is now home to a massive Bass Pro Shops store.
Rugby, Tennessee
A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.
Middlesboro, Kentucky
Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia meet at this point in the Cumberland Gap.
Bryson City, North Carolina
This high point in the Great Smoky Mountains is said to be home to the chief of all bears.
Townsend, Tennessee
This 19th-century building inadvertently preserved the handprints of its builders within its walls.
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
The secret city built by the Manhattan Project.
Sevierville, Tennessee
An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.
Sevierville, Tennessee
While knives are the main feature in this store, visitors will also find dinosaur bones and meteorites.
Clinton, Tennessee
The physical legacy of one man’s lifetime mission, following a near-fatal mine accident, to publicly proselytize for Christianity.
Clinton, Tennessee
This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.