Fodor's Expert Review Jack Daniel's Distillery

This quaint town is home to the Jack Daniel's Distillery, the oldest registered distillery in the country, where you can observe every step of the art of making sour-mash whiskey. Tours are lively and informative and involve a lot of walking throughout the beautiful grounds (including the spring that continues to source the whiskey) with stops at several buildings—among them Jack Daniel's office. Some tour options include sampling flights of different whiskeys. Note that even though Lynchburg is a dry town, you can buy a personalized bottle at the distillery's shop, and the whiskey inside it is considered "free," a loophole in the law.