Chattanooga, Tennessee Attractions

Unusual landmarks, museums, roadside attractions, and hidden wonders in Chattanooga and the surrounding area.

Chattanooga has endured as a tourist destination thanks to its proximity to Lookout Mountain, which visitors would ascend even in horse-and-buggy days just for the view. The Incline -- a near-vertical railway -- has made that journey a lot quicker (and more thrilling), while Rock City -- with its bizarre Fairyland Caverns -- has given people more to see than vistas when they get up top. Down below, literally, Ruby Falls and its subterranean waterfall have become more impressive with time, thanks to the installation of high-intensity color-shifting LEDs.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

Rock City
Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Mountaintop attraction designed by the wife of the man who invented miniature golf. Rocks, vistas, and the psychedelic Fairyland Caverns.
Ruby Falls
Chattanooga, Tennessee
A 145-foot-tall waterfall under the earth -- dramatically bathed in unnatural light -- is the centerpiece of this classic roadside cave attraction.
International Towing and Recovery Museum
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The history of tow trucks, complete with many exhibits; a Wall of the Fallen honors those who died in the line of duty.
The Incline
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Funicular railway opened as an attraction in 1895. It's like riding an elevator up the side of a mountain, on a train.
Bloodstained Tomb of Nina Craigmiles
Cleveland, Tennessee
Killed in a buggy accident. Unexplained stains have constantly soiled her house-sized white marble tomb.