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Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Memphis, Tennessee
Built on the site of the 1960s-70s soul label Stax Records. See Isaac Hayes' custom gold Cadillac, dance on an "Express Yourself" disco floor to videos from Soul Train.
Airplane Gas Station
Powell, Tennessee
Built in 1929, a former gas station roughly shaped like the Spirit of St. Louis. Abandoned for years; restored and reopened as a barber shop in May 2016.
Goonysaurus at Sir Goony's Golf
Farragut, Tennessee
Designed in 1960, the bright orange Goonysaurus is the most distinctive hazard at this vintage minigolf course.
Crystal Shrine Grotto
Memphis, Tennessee
A fake cave, filled with crystal quartz and odd religious statues, in the middle of a cemetery. It took 46 years to complete.
Grand Guitar
Bristol, Tennessee
The "Grand Guitar," built in 1983, once housed a gift shop, recording studio, country music AM radio station, and a mini-museum of musical instruments.
Blindshot Barnaby's Circus Golf
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Find your way through a claustrophobic mirror maze, then play indoor mini-golf surrounded by black-light dummy freaks from a sideshow midway.
The Incline
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Funicular railway opened as an attraction in 1895. It's like riding an elevator up the side of a mountain, on a train.
Frank Sutton: Gomer Pyle Nemesis
Clarksville, Tennessee
Frank Sutton played the Marine sergeant who always yelled at Gomer Pyle. His hometown immortalized him with a bronze statue in his familiar pose.
Pyramid of Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee
America's second largest pyramid has an indoor swamp, live alligators, and a glass-floored observation deck at its pointy top.
Danny Thomas Tomb, Statue, Mini-Museum
Memphis, Tennessee
Bluesy, rockin' Memphis is the go-to destination for fans of Elvis and -- Danny Thomas? Like the King, Danny is also buried at his attraction.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

Graceland
Memphis, Tennessee
The forever home of Elvis, and still a pilgrimage destination for his never-lessening legion of fans.
Titanic: World's Largest Museum Attraction
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Outside: a replica of one half of the doomed ocean liner. Inside: costumed actors, crashing, freezing, drowning, crush depth family fun.
Alcatraz East
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
America's most comprehensive museum of crime. Bonnie and Clyde's movie Death Car, OJ's low-speed chase Bronco, Tennessee's electric chair, plus a hands-on CSI lab, serial killer relics, and much more.
Home of Buford "Walking Tall" Pusser
Adamsville, Tennessee
The "Walking Tall" sheriff died under mysterious circumstances. See his death car and all of his things.
Billy Tripp's Mindfield
Brownsville, Tennessee
Brain-boggling network of towering steel girders, which the artist claims tells the story of his life.
Museum of Appalachia - Perpetual Motion Machine
Clinton, Tennessee
A rural living museum that surprises with devil burls, angel swirls, Apocalypse signage. 250,000 items.
Junior Banks' Fortress of Faith
Greenback, Tennessee
An incomplete castle hand-built by one man, and later blessed by the Lord. Themed rooms include a throne room and dungeon. Empty at the moment, but Junior is around.
Statue of Liberation Through Christ
Memphis, Tennessee
Looks like the Statue of Liberty, but can't be -- Lady Liberation is brandishing a giant Christian cross.
Parthenon and Statue of Athena
Nashville, Tennessee
A majestic, full-size heathen god and temple, in the buckle of the Bible Belt. Survivor of the 1897 Tennessee Centennial Exposition, now an art museum.
Lane Motor Museum
Nashville, Tennessee
Crazy-looking vehicles powered by airplane propellers, adorable microcars with three wheels, and Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car-of-the-future.
George Jones Museum
Nashville, Tennessee
Key career mementos of country music's "The Possum," including the jacket cut off of him after he crashed his car while drunk.
Pigeon Forge - Gatlinburg - A Mecca
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Sister tourist-towns sparkle like junk jewels on a necklace choking Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The Lost Sea
Sweetwater, Tennessee
It's been lost in a cave. See the sea by boat. It's really a lake, not a sea, but it has hungry fish and helpful tour guides.
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.
Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
More shakers than you can shake a shaker at.
Christ in the Smokies Museum and Gardens
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
The Life of Christ has been resurrected as a waxy tourist attraction.
Lincoln Museum on Rebel Ground
Harrogate, Tennessee
One of the world's largest Lincoln collections includes his Walking Stick of Death, and Lincoln depicted as Moses and as a sad clown.
Rockabilly Hall of Fame: Elvis Defibrillator of Death
Jackson, Tennessee
Relics include Carl Perkins blue suede shoes and the defibrillator that failed to revive Elvis.
Giant Skinny Indian
Kingsport, Tennessee
The tall, skinny, Native stands with a "Whatever, dude," expression.
Centaur of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee
Unearthed in Greece in 1981, and displayed at the University of Tennessee since 1994. "It is the best preserved and most complete centaurian specimen yet found."