The Discovery Center at Murfree Spring is a children's museum, nature center and wetlands boardwalk near downtown Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The Discovery Center provides hands-on education opportunities for the community of Murfreesboro. It serves as a vibrant community and tourism center with over 130,000 children and families exploring the exhibits each year.
The Earth Experience, the Middle Tennessee Museum of Natural History, is the first natural history museum in Middle Tennessee. The museum has displays from all over the world but has a very large number of items from Tennessee.
Thompson Lane Trailhead provides access to the historic McFadden farm property. This was the site of one of the bloodiest engagements in the Battle of Stones River and is marked with an artillery monument.