A low-ball bid on a padlocked Mexican restaurant built a Nashville institution. 3rd and Lindsley, at the corner of 3rd Avenue South and Lindsley Avenue half a mile south of Broadway in SoBro, began in 1991 when Ron Brice and a friend won a silent state auction for the shuttered Jose's almost by accident - and, finding the place stocked and ready, opened a music club instead of flipping it. The Bobby Bradford Blues Band played the first night; the city's session players, sidemen and rising acts m.....

A hands-on science museum perched on a historic hill just south of downtown Nashville, the Adventure Science Center invites visitors of all ages to explore the workings of the world through interactive exhibits and a domed planetarium. With well over a hundred exhibits spanning biology, physics, space, energy and the senses, it is a lively, exploratory destination especially popular with families and school groups. The institution traces its roots to 1945, when it opened downtown as a children'.....

For five days each September, Nashville's other music takes over the whole city. AMERICANAFEST - the Americana Music Festival and Conference, produced by the Americana Music Association from its headquarters south of Broadway - is the definitive annual gathering of roots, folk, bluegrass, country-adjacent and Americana music: 50-plus venues, more than 200 showcasing artists and nearly 300 events in recent editions, an operation the New York Times has called the coolest music scene today. The ev.....

One determined philanthropist gave Nashville its Broadway house. Andrew Jackson Hall, the 2,472-seat flagship of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center at 505 Deaderick Street, exists because Martha Rivers Ingram - appointed to the Kennedy Center's advisory board in 1972 - spent eight years and outlasted three governors selling her home city on a public-private performing arts center built beneath a state office building across from the Capitol. TPAC opened in 1980 and drew 84,000 attendees to nea.....

Nashville turned a demolished power plant into its downtown stage. Ascend Amphitheater at 301 1st Avenue South opened on 30 July 2015 with two sold-out Eric Church nights, the centrepiece of the new Metro Riverfront Park on the Cumberland River site where the city's old thermal transfer plant once stood - land that had idled for a decade after a minor-league ballpark scheme collapsed. The 6,800-capacity open-air bowl seats 2,300 in fixed rows with 4,500 more on the lawn, all facing a stage backe.....

An opulent Italian-style villa on the campus of Belmont University in Nashville, Belmont Mansion is the largest house museum in Tennessee and a remarkable monument to the wealth and ambition of one of the antebellum South's most formidable women. Built in the 1850s for Adelicia Acklen, the lavish mansion and its surrounding pleasure grounds were among the grandest in the region before the Civil War. The house was created as a summer residence by Adelicia, a twice-widowed heiress of extraordinar.....

A swamp saved the view, and Tennessee built its birthday present on it. Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, at 600 James Robertson Parkway in downtown Nashville, opened on 1 June 1996 to mark the state's 200th year - an 11-acre urban state park patterned on Washington's National Mall, laid out at the foot of Capitol Hill on the soft ground of the historic French Lick, the sulphur spring whose unbuildable soil kept skyscrapers off the Capitol's northern viewline while the rest of downtown walle.....

Nashville built an arena before it had a team, and won the bet twice. Bridgestone Arena opened on 18 December 1996 as the Nashville Arena at 501 Broadway, a 144-million-dollar downtown wager by mayor Phil Bredesen that Music City could carry major league sports - a building erected, as its operators still say, without any sport in mind. The gamble drew suitors immediately: an NBA application, flirtations with the Minnesota Timberwolves and New Jersey Devils, and finally the 1998 expansion Nashvi.....

The venue survived a tornado and a pandemic before it ever opened a door. Brooklyn Bowl Nashville in the Germantown neighbourhood was set to debut on 13 March 2020: a tornado tore through North Nashville on 3 March - totaling buildings across the street while leaving the venue a broken window - and the coronavirus shutdown arrived the day before the VIP opening party. The building spent the lost year pioneering ticketed livestreams with Jason Isbell, Margo Price and Billy Strings before finally .....

The largest state park in Indiana, Brown County State Park sprawls across more than fifteen thousand acres of rugged, forested hills near the town of Nashville, Indiana, drawing well over a million visitors a year. Often likened to the landscapes of the Appalachians, its rolling ridges, deep ravines and dense woodlands make it one of the most scenic natural retreats in the Midwest, especially celebrated for its blazing autumn colours. The park was established in the late 1920s, set among the un.....