Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Tennessee

While in Tennessee, you might enjoy a visit to:

Chilean-born artist Pedro P Silva created this long, colorful sculpture of a dragon - sea serpent, which its humps emerging from the surface of the public park.
~25 miles from Springfield.

Nathaniel Bedford Forrest was a Confederate general, and a big honcho with the early KKK. The statue was erected by the lawyer who defended the assassin of Martin Luther King Jr. Aesthetically and politically incorrect.
~31 miles from Springfield.

This museum chronicles the bizarre tale of Floyd Collins -- "Greatest Cave Explorer Ever Known" -- as he met his not-so-great subterranean end.
~65 miles from Springfield.

Classic distraction on the road to Mammoth Cave, this souvenir/rock shop features dinosaurs, a fossilized skull and a series of black-lit rooms, including a perception distorto chamber, or whatever they call it.
~65 miles from Springfield.

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