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

This stone memorial pays tribute to a massive shipwreck which was sadly overshadowed by the death of John Wilkes Booth.

Once decrepit and slated for demolition, now one of the longest pedestrian bridges in the world.

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

This historic train station has been converted to a locomotive themed hotel.

Live long and prosper in Tennessee.

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

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

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

Labor provided by Great Depression-era programs restored these 25,000 acres in Tennessee.

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

Visit this playground of waterfalls, caves and sinkholes.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Art historians have debated the identity of this medieval stone rider since the 19th century.

Walk inside a half mile long crevice right outside the town of Garmisch Partenkirchen.

Tiny castle in the middle of the Rhine made you pay to pass.

The castle where Martin Luther secretly translated the New Testament from Greek to German while in hiding.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

Sitting in the basement of a castle, the largest wine barrel in the world is bigger than most apartments.

Legendary site where an evil bishop was devoured by rodents.

A whimsical art tower at a Bavarian brewery includes a grotto for its mythical beer-brewing dwarves.

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

The largest bell in the world has been swinging high above a Cologne cathedral for almost a century.