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William Howard Taft National Historic Site is the Greek Revival house in Mount Auburn, built in the 1840s, where William Howard Taft, the 27th president and later chief justice of the United States, was born in 1857 and grew up. The National Park Service shows furnished family rooms and exhibits, with a visitor centre in the Taft Education Center next door.

The Taft Museum of Art occupies a house built around 1820 on Pike Street, later home to Charles Phelps Taft and Anna Sinton Taft, who gave it and their collection to the people of Cincinnati; it opened as a museum in 1932. Its rooms show paintings by Rembrandt, Hals, Gainsborough and Turner, Chinese porcelain, Limoges enamels and Robert S. Duncanson's murals.

The Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame and Museum tells the story of the city's baseball club, whose roots go back to the Cincinnati Red Stockings of 1869. Founded in 1958 and housed since 2004 in a building beside Great American Ball Park on the Ohio River, it shows photographs, memorabilia and multimedia displays and honours the club's inductees.

The Tyler Davidson Fountain, also called The Genius of Water, stands on Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati. Dedicated in 1871, the bronze fountain was designed by August von Kreling and cast in Munich; a female figure with outstretched arms rises above scenes showing the uses of water. The square around it hosts concerts and events.

The John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge crosses the Ohio River between Cincinnati and Covington, Kentucky. Designed by John A. Roebling and opened in 1867, its 322-metre main span was the longest in the world at the time, and its stone towers and cables foreshadow his later Brooklyn Bridge. Walkways run along both sides.

The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is a museum on the Ohio riverfront in downtown Cincinnati, opened in 2004 in a building by BOORA Architects. Its exhibitions trace American slavery, the people who escaped across the river and the Underground Railroad network that helped them; the central exhibit is a two-storey log slave pen built in Kentucky in 1830.

Plum Street Temple is a Reform synagogue in downtown Cincinnati, dedicated in 1866 for the congregation of Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, a founder of Reform Judaism in America. James Keys Wilson designed it in a Moorish Revival style inspired by the Alhambra, with two minarets and a rose window; the interior is seen at services and on tours booked in advance.

The American Sign Museum, founded by Tod Swormstedt and opened in 2005, collects commercial signs from the late 19th century to the 1970s, from gold-leaf lettering on glass to neon and plastic. Since 2012 it has filled a former factory in Camp Washington, where many signs line a mock street of shopfronts and Neonworks of Cincinnati shows how neon signs are made.

Brookgreen Gardens near Murrells Inlet, about 30 km south of Myrtle Beach, was founded in 1931 by Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington on four former rice plantations. Its gardens hold more than 2,000 works of American figurative sculpture under avenues of live oaks, and the 3,700-hectare property includes a small zoo of native animals and boat trips on the old rice fields.

Atalaya is the Moorish-style winter home of Archer and the sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington, built in 1931-1933 in what is now Huntington Beach State Park, about 30 km south of Myrtle Beach. The single-storey brick house is arranged around an open courtyard with a square tower and once had studios and stables; visitors tour its empty rooms within the state park.

Cincinnati Museum Center occupies Union Terminal, an Art Deco railway station by Fellheimer & Wagner with Paul Philippe Cret, opened in 1933. Around its half-domed rotunda with Winold Reiss mosaic murals are the Cincinnati History Museum, the Museum of Natural History & Science, a children's museum and an Omnimax theatre; Amtrak trains still stop here.

Dollywood is a theme park in Pigeon Forge at the foot of the Great Smoky Mountains, co-owned by Dolly Parton and Herschend and opened under her name in 1986 on the site of an earlier park. It mixes roller coasters such as the wooden Thunderhead with Smoky Mountain crafts, a steam train, live music shows and seasonal festivals.

SkyLand Ranch is a mountaintop park on the Parkway in Sevierville, just north of Pigeon Forge, reached by a chairlift. At the top is a western-themed village with shops and food, viewing points over the Great Smoky Mountains, and the Wild Stallion mountain coaster, whose sleds run down the hillside on a single rail.

WonderWorks Pigeon Forge is a hands-on science attraction in a building constructed to look as if it had landed upside down, opened in 2006. Its more than 100 interactive exhibits let visitors feel hurricane-force winds and an earthquake simulation, lie on a bed of nails and try a space-flight simulator, and it has a ropes course and a laser tag arena.

Hatfield & McCoy Dinner Feud is a comedy dinner show in a theatre on Music Road in Pigeon Forge, loosely based on the 19th-century feud between two Appalachian families. Singers, dancers and acrobats play the two clans in a musical comedy with slapstick and audience participation, while guests are served a Southern-style meal.

The Titanic Museum Attraction on the Parkway in Pigeon Forge, opened in 2010, is housed in a half-scale replica of the bow of RMS Titanic set in a pool of water. Visitors receive the boarding pass of a real passenger and walk through galleries with about 400 artefacts, a replica of the Grand Staircase and rooms on the ship's sinking in 1912.

The Old Mill in Pigeon Forge is a gristmill built in 1830 on the Little Pigeon River, near the iron forge that gave the town its name; it is the only building in Pigeon Forge on the National Register of Historic Places. Its water wheel still turns the millstones, and the mill sells its own flour and meal, with a restaurant and shops around Old Mill Square.

Dolly Parton's Stampede on the Parkway in Pigeon Forge is a dinner show in an indoor arena, opened in 1988 under the name Dixie Stampede and renamed in 2018. Some 30 horses and their riders perform trick riding, races and friendly contests between the two halves of the audience, who eat a four-course meal without cutlery.

Alcatraz East Crime Museum on the Parkway in Pigeon Forge opened in 2016 in a building styled as a 19th-century prison. It began in 2008 in Washington, D.C., as the National Museum of Crime and Punishment. Its two floors cover the history of crime, policing and forensic science, with artefacts from notable cases and interactive crime-scene exhibits.

Anakeesta is a mountaintop park above downtown Gatlinburg, opened in 2017. Visitors ride an open chairlift or enclosed gondola up from the Parkway to a ridge-top village with gardens, a treetop canopy walk of suspended bridges, a single-rail mountain coaster, ziplines and an observation tower with views of the Great Smoky Mountains.