Tennessee
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Tree House Rock: Face of the Creator
Crossville - "If you don't believe in the devil," said Horace Burgess, “you can look at that rock right there and tell that he's much alive.” Full story
Featured Attractions
Minister's Tree House
Crossville, Tennessee
A giant tree house -- maybe the largest in the world -- built by a preacher who says that God told him to do it.
International Towing and Recovery Museum
Chattanooga, Tennessee
The history of tow trucks, complete with many exhibits; a Wall of the Fallen honors those who died in the line of duty.
Dinosaur Walk Museum
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Stroll the Jurassic, here or in a tourist mecca near you.
Elvis Museum
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
See Elvis's honeymoon Cadillac, his shotgun, his softball jacket!
Crystal Shrine Grotto
Memphis, Tennessee
Cavern of rock quartz and semiprecious stones, carved out of the hillside by one man in the late 1930s.
Museum of Appalachia
Clinton, Tennessee
A rural living museum that surprises with devil burls, angel swirls, Apocalypse signage, and a perpetual motion machine.
American Museum of Science & Energy
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Atom Age museum embraces energy alternatives, zombie cam.
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Vacation Favorites
Notable places we've visited or heard about.
- Adams: Bell Witch Cave [tips]
- Adamsville: Buford "Walking Tall" Pusser home [tips]
- Bristol: World's Largest Guitar [tips]
- Brownsville: Billy Tripp's MindField [tips]
- Chattanooga: UFO House [tips]
- Chattanooga: Ruby Falls Caverns [tips]
- Chattanooga: International Towing & Recovery Hall of Fame/ Museum
- Clarksville: Atomic Mortar
- Clinton: Museum of Appalachia [tips]
- Crossville: Minister's Tree House
- Erwin: Big Mary, elephant hanging site
- Gatlinburg: Dukes of Hazzard Mini-Museum [tips]
- Gatlinburg & Pigeon Forge: Meccas of the South
- Gatlinburg: Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum
- Hurricane Mills: Loretta Lynn's Dude Ranch [tips]
- Kenton: White Squirrel Capital of the World
- Kingsport: Giant Skinny Indian [tips]
- Kingsport: Pal's Giant Food [tips]
- Knoxville: Giant Basketball [tips]
- Lake City: The Miner's Circle - Mine Explosion Graves [tips]
- Lebanon: Head of a Man Creature [tips]
- Lynchburg: Jack Daniel Distillery [tips]
- Memphis: First Church of the Elvis Impersonator [tips]
- Memphis: Crystal Shrine Grotto
- Memphis: Graceland
- Memphis: Statue of Liberation Through Christ [tips]
- Nashville: Nathan Bedford Forrest statue [tips]
- Nashville: The Parthenon, [tips]
- Oak Ridge: American Museum of Science & Energy, Former "Home of the Atomic Bomb" [tips]
- Oak Ridge: World Trade Center Made of Rusty Debris
- Palmyra: E.T. Wickham's Folk Art [tips]
- Paris: Replica Eiffel Tower and Biggest Fish Fry [tips]
- Pigeon Forge: Bear Pits
- Pigeon Forge: Dinosaur Walk Museum
- Pigeon Forge: Debbie Reynolds Museum [tips]
- Pigeon Forge: Dollywood [tips]
- Pigeon Forge: Elvis Museum
- Pigeon Forge: Tourist Mecca
- Powell: Airplane Service Station [tips]
- Sevierville: Dolly Parton Statue
- Sevierville: Forbidden Caverns [tips]
- Sweetwater: The Lost Sea [tips]
- Trenton: World's Largest Teapot Collection [tips]
- Wartrace: Strolling Jim the Horse
- Whitwell: Holocaust Rail Car and 11 Million Paper Clips [tips]
