THE BEST Sights and Attractions in Nashville

🏛️ Sights and Attractions in Nashville

• Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum — A 350,000-square-foot museum downtown tracing country music history from its folk roots to modern stars, with gold records, instruments, and costumes.
• Grand Ole Opry — The longest-running radio broadcast in U.S. history (since 1925), now in a 4,400-seat venue east of downtown, with weekly shows featuring country legends and newcomers.
• Ryman Auditorium — The "Mother Church of Country Music," a 2,362-seat 1892 church building that hosted the Grand Ole Opry from 1943-1974, now a legendary concert venue.
• Johnny Cash Museum — A downtown museum dedicated to the Man in Black, with costumes, instruments, letters, and interactive exhibits from the Cash family collection.
• Frist Art Museum — An art museum in the 1934 Art Deco former Union Station post office, with rotating exhibitions from ancient to contemporary art.
• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — The 1,120-acre plantation home of the 7th president, with a Greek Revival mansion, slave quarters, and gardens 12 miles east of Nashville.
• Music Row — A historic district of recording studios, music publishing houses, and record labels on 16th and 17th Avenues South, the heart of Nashville's music industry.
• Broadway Honky-Tonk Strip — A four-block stretch of live music bars on Lower Broadway, with free live country music from 10 AM to 3 AM at Tootsie's, Robert's, and more.
• The Parthenon in Centennial Park — A full-scale replica of the Athens Parthenon, built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, housing a 42-foot Athena statue and an art museum.
• Belle Meade Historic Site — An 1853 Greek Revival mansion on a former 5,400-acre thoroughbred farm that bred Kentucky Derby winners, with tastings of Tennessee whiskey.