Let me tell you about Nashville, the capital of Tennessee and the Athens of the south. It's a big city now, but even when I lived there in the 1950's, it had 17 colleges and universities. By now, they have more institutions of higher learning than most towns have gas stations and beauty parlors. The have Music Row, Centennial Park with its full sized replica of the Parthenon.
Printer's Alley, Vanderbilt University, Adelphia Stadium, home of the Tennessee Titans(I think that's a football team with a yellow stripe on the field.)
If you want to go to a tourist-friendly capital city, try Nashville.
Howard