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A 300-foot paddle wheeler that cruises the Cumberland River with a live orchestra, dancers, and a Southern-style meal — the closest thing Nashville has to old-fashioned riverboat spectacle. Docks behind Opry Mills, a few minutes from Gaylord Opryland.

A two-hour musical comedy tour aboard the Big Pink Bus, roasting Nashville's music-industry mythology as much as celebrating it. Founded in 1997 by sisters Brenda Kay Jugg and Sheri Lynn, it's less a sightseeing tour than a show that happens to move.

(615) 226-7300

Lantern-lit walking tours through downtown's darker back-history, run by AmeriGhost since 2003 — the city's first locally owned ghost tour operator. Ninety minutes of Victorian-costumed storytelling past the Ryman, the Capitol, and Printer's Alley.

(615) 884-3999

A short, closely guarded look inside Jack White's Nashville headquarters — label offices, the world's only direct-to-acetate live venue, and the 1947 Voice-o-Graph booth. Fridays only, tickets go fast.

(615) 891-4393

A three-hour walking food tour through downtown Nashville, stopping at five restaurants and food shops between landmarks like the Country Music Hall of Fame and the Ryman. Small groups, local guides, running since 2014.