The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

This simple gravestone remembers a pig who single-hoofedly raised $19,000,000 for the Navy.

Now nearly abandoned, Kaskaskia was once the capital of Illinois and one of the most important towns on the upper Mississippi.

University City's quirkiest resident lives in a park named after its first.

A historic house in St. Louis was plagued by a series of suicides committed by family members involved in a successful brewery.

A key producer of charcoal iron in the early 1800s, the structure still stands today.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

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

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

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

The first full-scale tunnel built in America is short but scenic.

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

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

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

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

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Home of an evil witch famous within southern folklore.

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.