A towering, ever-growing maze of welded steel — one artist's autobiography in metal — rising over downtown Brownsville in West Tennessee's flatlands.
Road trips · Tennessee
Tennessee road trips & hidden gems.
The stops worth changing a travel day for in Tennessee — crowd-voted gems, events worth traveling for, and the public golf you can actually book. Curated by Roamward, the scenic road-trip planner.
Hidden gems
What locals say you shouldn’t miss.
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America's largest underground lake, explored by glass-bottom boat deep inside a cavern in Sweetwater, an easy detour off I-75 in East Tennessee.
A rustic Gatlinburg building holding more than 20,000 sets of salt-and-pepper shakers from around the world — endearingly obsessive and oddly mesmerizing in the Smokies foothills.
A 25-foot pink elephant smiling beside the road in Cookeville, a free and cheerful photo stop on the Cumberland Plateau between Nashville and Knoxville.
A massive antique cedar bucket — once thought lost to a fire and lovingly rebuilt — on display in Murfreesboro, a quick quirky stop in the middle of the state.
A 60-foot plunge that drops straight off the Cumberland Plateau into a turquoise pool ringed by sandstone cliffs, with a short boardwalk to the overlook in South Cumberland State Park near Monteagle.
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