This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

An unexpected but incredible collection of wildlife dioramas spanning rainforests, swamps, forests, and plains.

Three markers installed over the course of 140 years mark the point where Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma converge.

The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.

Some of the best pastries in "the Czech heritage capital of Texas" come from a gas station off I-35.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

A museum honoring Oklahoma military service, where you can look into Hitler's mirror and see a Mickey Mouse gas mask.

This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Two gushing waterfalls of hot spring water within a block of each other.

This Arkansas town is known for its gangster history, its healing waters, and now its brews.

Someone really, really wanted to save this fast-food icon from demolition.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

A mass grave for victims of an airline disaster that led to much-needed safety improvements for commercial flights.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

A working cattle ranch with remarkably well-preserved prehistoric petroglyphs and ancient ruins.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.