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

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

At 135 years old and counting, this historic print shop is heaven for poster nerds and music buffs.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

The cruel trial of a 13-year-old boy inspired the creation of this now abandoned reformatory.

The first statue of Christ sleeping on a bench in the United States confused its affluent parish.

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

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

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

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

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

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

In the hometown of the Grand Ole Opry star is a larger-than-life memorial statue made entirely from chicken wire.

All that's left of the quintessential "cabin in the woods."

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.