This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.

In one of America’s oldest mountain ranges, a long-awaited section of a scenic highway is now open to the public.

This simple, broken column marks the final resting place of one of America's most famous explorers.

These early tent-shaped grave coverings are unique to Appalachia.

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

An unknown Hall of Fame in Jackson, Tennessee.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

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

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

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

More than five miles of underground passageways.

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

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

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

One of the greatest boxers and humanitarians to ever live chose his hometown as his final resting place.

Kentucky's longest operating jail is now a spooky spot to spend the night.

A full-scale replica of a 1774 colonial settlement in Kentucky.