Fodor's Expert Review Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Country Star Museum

This homage to the father of bluegrass, the late Bill Monroe, is 5 miles north of Nashville in Bean Blossom. It contains a walkway of Hollywood-style stars dedicated to bluegrass-music artists, and there are also relics linked to Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. Bluegrass mania really gets into gear in May during a weeklong John Hartford Memorial Festival and climaxes in mid-June for the annual Bill Monroe Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, the oldest continuously running bluegrass festival in the world, celebrating its 48th year in 2014. Another festival takes place in September.