Asoociation for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities Historic Homes
With its mission to promote participation in the preservation of Tennessee’s rich historic, cultural, architectural and archeological heritage through restoration, education, advocacy and statewide cooperation, the Association of the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities is the oldest statewide nonprofit historic preservation organization in the State of Tennessee and the fourth oldest in the nation. Since 1951, APTA has been preserving and maintaining historic sites that play an important role in Tennessee’s rich cultural heritage. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Nashville, TN
Phone:  (615) 352-8247

Authentic Tours Historic Black Nashville and Middle Tennessee
A three hour experience in the remarkable Black Heritage in Nashville, from the early free settlers through the growth and development of the city. Black educators, historic institutions, military leaders, publishing houses, premier political leaders; personalities including Oprah, W. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Nashville, TN
Phone:  615.299.5626

Backbeat Tours
The Home of the Blues comes alive aboard Memphis' only music bus! See Beale Street, Sun Studio, Stax Records, the Lorraine Motel, movie locations, and more, but the music is the difference on this tour. All of Backbeat’s guides are Memphis musicians, who play and sing selections from the city’s rich musical heritage along with generous amounts of comedy and audience interaction. ...more

Region:  Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City:  Memphis, TN
Phone:  901-527-9415

Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium
Bays Mountain Park & Planetarium, located in beautiful Kingsport, Tennessee, is a 3500-acre nature preserve and the largest city-owned park in the state of Tennessee. The park features a picturesque 44-acre lake, a nature center with a state-of-the-art planetarium theater, adventure ropes course including a 300-foot zip line, and animal habitats featuring wolves, bobcats, raptors and reptiles. ...more

Region:  Northeast
City:  Kingsport, TN
Phone:  (423) 229-9447

Beech River Cultural Center & Museum
Chronicles the history of Henderson County. Displays pertain to geology, native inhabitants, early settlers and wars. ...more

Region:  Southwest
City:  Lexington, TN
Phone:  731-967-0306

Beechcraft Heritage Museum
The Staggerwing Museum commemorates Walter Beech's Model 17 "Staggerwing" as a milestone of 1930's aviation development. Various Beech aircraft are on display to include Travel Airs, Beech 18s, and Bonanza. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Tullahoma, TN
Phone:  931-455-1974

Belle Meade Plantation
Once one of the largest private estates in Nashville encompassing 5,400 acres and home to five generations of the Harding-Jackson family, Belle Meade Plantation today is a 30-acre historic site 6 miles west of Nashville. Before the Civil War, Belle Meade flourished; today bullets from the Battle of Nashville scar the house, used as Confederate Gen. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Nashville, TN
Phone:  615-356-0501

Belmont Mansion
The largest house museum in Tennessee. One of the few 19th-century homes in which the story revolves around a woman. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Nashville, TN
Phone:  615-460-5459

Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art
Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art The Belz Museum of Asian & Judaic Art is located within the borders of the Peabody Place entertainment and retail district in the heart of Downtown Memphis. Asian and European art and artifacts in the museum's collection include ivory carvings, cloisonne, cinnabar and jade sculptures from the Qing Dynasty, as well as imperial furnishings and textiles. ...more

Region:  Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City:  Memphis, TN
Phone:  901-523-2787

Bemis Mill Village Museum
Opening 2008, the Bemis Mill Village Museum, located in the historic and rehabilitated Bemis Theater/Auditorium, contains exhibits and memorabilia portraying the story of Bemis, a mill town forged out of the cotton fields in 1900 by Judson Moss Bemis. ...more

Region:  Southwest
City:  Jackson, TN
Phone:  731-424-0739

Bessie Smith
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Bessie Smith was widely known as "The Empress of the Blues,” Bessie Smith was a popular singer during the 1920s. Raised in poverty in the South, she ran away as a teenager to join a traveling show as a dancer. ...more

Region:  Chattanooga & Southeast
City:  Chattanooga, TN
Phone:  (423) 266-8658

Birthplace of Country Music Alliance Museum
Exhibits and artifacts on traditional Appalachian music and performers from the region. Live music every Thursday evening. ...more

Region:  Northeast
City:  Bristol, TN
Phone:  (276) 645-0035

Blockade Runner, Sutlery & Civil War Museum
The Civil War Museum is dedicated to the common soldier North or South during the June 1863 Tullahoma Campaign. ...more

Region:  Nashville & Surrounding Areas
City:  Wartrace, TN
Phone:  931-389-6294

Blues City Tours
Graceland, City Tour, Mud Island, Riverboat, Civil Rights Museum. Casino at Mud Island, Memphis Music Tour, Shopping at Beale Street. ...more

Region:  Memphis & Surrounding Areas
City:  Memphis, TN
Phone:  901-522-9229

Bolivar Historic District
Bolivar's original electric and water department built in the early 1900s later became the Hardeman County Chamber of Commerce in the 1980s. ...more

Region:  Southwest
City:  Bolivar, TN
Phone:  731-658-6554