In this section we provide 22 colored maps of enjoyable side trips you can take - perhaps as a brief evening jaunt after checking into your motel or as a short excursion in your day's drive. Wineries, beauty spots, historic battlefields and forts, museums . . . even Colonel Sanders' original kitchen where he invented his famous chicken meal with the secret herbs and spices . . . they are all here.

• The 1812 battlefield of the Raisin River (Michigan)
• Fort Meigs, Ohio, and the 1812 battlefield
• Dayton's Wright Brother sites and Centennial Events (1903-2003)
• Berea, the Arts & Craft Capital of Kentucky
• Mainstrasse, KY - an "Olde World" German village
• Lexington, KY area ... and downtown Lex
• Historical "White Hall" and "Fort Boonesborough"
• Levi Jackson State Park & Boone's Wilderness Road
• Victorian Gerogetown
• The Birthplace of Kentucky Fried Chicken
• The "Moonbeam and Cumberland Falls, KY
• A trip through Elk Valley (simple bypass to Tennessee's steep Pine Mountain route)
• Norris Dam State Park & the Museum of Appalachia
• Bypassing Knoxville
• Chattanooga area and Downtown
• Civil War 1864 Battle of Resaca, Georgia
• Historical Bartow County
• Civil War - Great Locomotive Chase sites
• Civil War - Battle of Allatoona Pass, Georgia
• Marietta Square, GA
• The Whistle Stop Cafe, from the movie - "Fried Green Tomatoes"

And as a bonus for those trying to navigate Detroit's streets to and from the Ambassador Bridge - a simple colored map to ensure you don't get lost.