Bone marrow-loaded birria with handmade corn tortillas—need we say more?

This bottle-shaped monument pays tribute to the Appalachian drink that changed the pace of human life.

Visit the art studio of an early 20th-century painter, hidden amid the Great Smoky Mountains.

At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.

Sip mead from an East Nashville apiary while snacking on barbacoa tacos.

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

Alongside this Memphis trail are several sculptures that show trail-goers how to relax.

Feast on award-winning birria tacos from a food truck inside this neon robo-tiki bar.

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

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

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

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

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

The whole world in one water tank.

The development and impact of electronic media showcased in a picturesque farmhouse in Maryland.

The childhood home of the Sultan of Swat is just a line drive away from Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

This 1830s store is believed to be the site of Harriet Tubman's first stand.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Named for a Greek oracle that interpreted the words of Zeus, this beautifully-restored manor home was once home to the architect of the Marshall Plan.