Tennessee Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball Tennessee places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Adamsville: Home of Buford "Walking Tall" Pusser
Adams: Bell Witch Cave
Adams: Bell Witch Museum
Alcoa: Millennium Manor
Athens: Dairy Farm Tours, Big Cow
Beech Grove: Grave of Old Isham - Rebel War Horse
Benton: Nancy Ward's Grave
Braden: Mermaid and Strange House
Bradford: Air-mail mailbox
Bradford: Doodle Soup Capital of the World
Brentwood: Nathaniel Bedford Forrest Statue
Bristol: Motor Speedway Christmas
Brownsville: Billy Tripp's MindField
Bulls Gap: Archie Campbell Museum
Camden: North America's Only Freshwater Pearl Farm
Camden: Patsy Cline Crash Site Memorial
Caryville: Big Dragon Statue
Centerville: Minnie Pearl Statue
Chattanooga: Dragon Dreams Dragon Museum
Chattanooga: International Towing and Recovery Museum
Chattanooga: Muffler Man - NASCAR Pit Crew Member
Chattanooga: Ruby Falls
Chattanooga: World's Largest Alligator Snapping Turtle
Clarksville: Don F. Pratt Memorial Museum
Cleveland: Blood-Stained Crypt of Nina Cragmiles
Cleveland: Giant Coke Cans
Clinton: Museum of Appalachia - Perpetual Motion Machine
Columbia: Mule Capital of the World
Cookeville: Arda Lee's Hidden Hollow
Cookeville: Pink Elephant Wearing Bikini
Cordova: World's Tallest Three Crosses of Calvary
Cornersville: Wyatt Archaeological Museum - Noah's Ark Found!
Cosby: Moonshine Bar, but no more Moonshine
Covington: Patriot Park - Skyhawk Attack Bomber
Cross Plains: Muffler Man - Indian
Cross Plains: Pink Elephant with Glasses and Martini
Crossville: The Minister's Tree House
Darden: Biggie Sized Mills Darden Signs
Dowelltown: Country Music Star Aaron Tippin's Outdoors
Dyersburg: Big John - Vague Recollections
Elizabethton: Big "Jesus is Lord" sign, three crosses
Elkton: Giant Chicken
Erwin: Big Mary the Elephant
Fort Campbell: Hitler's Calling Card Bowl
Franklin: House Riddled with 1,000 Civil War Bullet Holes
Franklin: Rusty Mechanism
Gatlinburg: Christ in the Smokies Museum and Gardens
Gatlinburg: Cletus the Smoky Mountain Merman
Gatlinburg: Dinosaur Golf
Gatlinburg: Dukes of Hazzard Mini-Museum
Gatlinburg: Fiji Merman
Gatlinburg: Hillbilly Golf - On the Mountain
Gatlinburg: Hollywood Star Cars Museum
Gatlinburg: Hollywood Wax Museum
Gatlinburg: Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers
Gatlinburg: Space Needle
Goodlettsville: Garth Brooks Museum - Not
Greeneville: Cannonball in a Church Wall
Hohenwald: Elephant Sanctuary - Home of Winkie the Killer Elephant
Hurricane Mills: Loretta Lynn's Coal Miner's Daughter Museum
Jackson: Casey Jones Village
Kenton: Home of the White Squirrels
Kingsport: Big Fries, Hot Dog, Shake
Kingsport: Giant Skinny Indian
Kingsport: Muffler Man Holding a Hamburger
Knoxville, Roane County: Atomic Motor Speedway
Knoxville: Large Basketball Atop Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
Knoxville: Rowing Man Sculpture - Oarsman
Knoxville: The Body Farm
Knoxville: The Sunsphere
Knoxville: Universe Knoxville - A Dream Unfulfilled
Knoxville: World's Largest Rubik's Cube
La Follette: Giant Cross
Lake City: The Miner's Circle - Mine Explosion Graves
Lebanon: Head of a Man Creature
Lebanon: Pinky Pigglesworth
Lewisburg: Fainting Goat Festival
Liberty: Donkey Painting
Lookout Mountain: Battles for Chattanooga - Confederama

Lookout Mountain: Incline Railroad
Lynchburg: Jack Daniel's Distillery Tour - Safe That Killed Daniel
Madison: Pink Elephant
Madison: Queen of Country Music - Retired
McMinnville: Cumberland Caverns - With Chandelier
McMinnville: MUFFLERSauR US - Dinosaur car parts sculpture
Memphis: America's Largest Pyramid
Memphis: Beale Street Police Museum
Memphis: Big Foot Lodge - Kooky Canuck
Memphis: Coin-Operated Elvis Shrine
Memphis: Controversial Grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest
Memphis: Crystal Shrine Grotto
Memphis: Elvis's Apartment
Memphis: Elvis's First Home In Memphis
Memphis: Fire Museum
Memphis: Graceland
Memphis: Large Buddha Statue
Memphis: National Civil Rights Museum
Memphis: Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe - Vague Recollections
Memphis: Peabody Ducks
Memphis: Statue of Liberation (Through Christ)
Memphis: World's Only Soul Music Museum
Mount Pleasant: Mt. Pleasant-Maury Phosphate Museum
Munford (north of Memphis): Muffler Man - Transient
Murfreesboro: Geographic Center of Tennessee
Murfreesboro: World's Largest Cedar Bucket
Nashville: Billy Graham Statue
Nashville: Boulder Tombstone
Nashville: Car parts muffler sculpture
Nashville: Charlie Daniels Museum
Nashville: Controversial "Musica" Statue
Nashville: Country Western Singer Statue
Nashville: Mother Teresa Miracle Nun Bun
Nashville: Music Row casualities
Nashville: Music Valley Wax Museum - Free Gift
Nashville: Nash Trash Tour
Nashville: Pair of Polar Bear Statues
Nashville: Replica Parthenon and Statue of Athena
Normandy: George Dickel Distillery Tour - Free Hat!
Oak Ridge: American Museum of Science & Energy
Oak Ridge: World Trade Center Made of Rusty Debris
Oliver Springs: October Sky Museum
Pall Mall: Sergeant York Grave
Palmyra: E.T. Wickham's Folk Art
Paris: Eiffel Tower Replica
Paris: Giant Catfish
Pigeon Forge: Dinosaur Walk Museum
Pigeon Forge: Dollywood
Pigeon Forge: Dollywood
Pigeon Forge: Elvis Museum
Pigeon Forge: Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg - A Mecca
Pigeon Forge: Pioneer - Pirate Statue
Pigeon Forge: Porpoise Island - Vague Recollections
Pigeon Forge: Proposed: Titanic II
Pigeon Forge: Three Bears Bear Pit
Pioneer: USA Titan Fireworks Rocket
Powell: Gas Station Shaped Like an Airplane
Pulaski: Backwards Plaque Shuns the KKK
Rogersville: Memory Lane - Private 1950s Town
Royal Blue: Longest Fire Truck?
Sevierville: Dolly Parton Statue
Sevierville: Forbidden Caverns
Sevierville: Llama Treks - Shortcake with Banana Man
Sevierville: Monster Truck Rides
Sevierville: WonderWorks (in old Anita Bryant Show building)
Shelbyville: Grave of Beautiful Jim Key, the Educated Horse
Signal Mountain: Flying Saucer House
Sweetwater: The Lost Sea
Tellico Plains: 12 ft. Topiary Dragon Mailbox
Townsend: ChristyFest - Celebrating All Things "Christy"
Townsend: Tuckaleechee Caverns
Trenton: "31 MPH" Speed Limit and Town Rivalry
Trenton: World's Largest Teapot Collection
Vonore: Sequoyah Birthplace Museum
Wartrace: Stepping Out Farm - The Swingingest Ass In Town
Wartrace: Strolling Jim, Tennessee Walking Horse
White House: Ape
Whitwell: Holocaust Box Car with 11 Million Paper Clips

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Bristol: Grand Guitar
Gatlinburg: Christus Gardens - Gone
Gatlinburg: Xanadu: Home of the Future - Closed
Goodlettsville: Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising - Closed
Monteagle - Pelham: Wonder Cave - Closed
Mount Pleasant: Lumpy's - Bizarre Eatery - Closed
Nashville: Muffler Man - Gone

Nashville: Museum of Tobacco Art and History - Closed
Pigeon Forge: Anita Bryant Show - Closed
Pigeon Forge: Bunny Golf - Gone
Pigeon Forge: Carbo's Smokey Mountain Police Museum - Closed
Pigeon Forge: National Freedom Museum - Gone
Wildersville: Third Largest Pecan Tree in the World

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