Places Taffodil Wants to Go

This overgrown Illinois water park offers a whole new type of adventure.

America’s smallest national park site is the former residence of exiled Polish national hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A watering hole where regulars who have ordered 500 beers have their names etched on the bar in gold.

Once one of the most polluted caves in America, now an environmental success story and a museum dedicated to caves.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Built in the 19th century, this bucket has been to two World’s Fairs.

Dinosaurs invade a suburban Nashville neighborhood.

A heartwarming message to those entering and departing Music City from above.

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

The site of the one of the most deadly train wrecks in American history.

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

This seasonal soft serve shack has been doling out silky swirls since 1951.

An enormous mural of a local Nashville resident adorns this abandoned silo.

This quirky local sculpture is quite literally a fish out of water.

Located inside a former record pressing plant, this recording studio pays homage to the techniques and gear of a bygone age.

Located inside a former bread factory, this museum explores a century of transportation history through innovations that were extraordinary or failures—sometimes both.

In 1912, a broken section of the reservoir wall released millions of gallons of water and destroyed many homes downhill.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

For decades these polar bears have roamed all around a Nashville neighborhood.

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

Jack White's record store is the only place in the world that records live shows direct-to-acetate.

This alleyway was named to honor the memory of a beloved local dog.