Tennessee Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Tennessee. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Chattanooga | Knoxville | Memphis | Nashville | Oak Ridge | Pigeon Forge
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Adamsville: Buford Pusser Died Here
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Adamsville: Home of Buford "Walking Tall" Pusser
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Adams: Bell Witch Cave
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Adams: Bell Witch Museum
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Alcoa: Millennium Manor
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Antioch: The Gift
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Arrington: Renaissance-Lover's Castle
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Athens: Big Cows, Ice Cream - Dairy Tour
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Athens: Nocatula and Connestoga
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Beech Grove: Grave of Old Isham, Rebel War Horse
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Bellevue: Dinosaurs, Animals Gated In Yard
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Blountville: Appalachian Caverns
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Blountville: UFO And Aliens in Yard
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Bluff City: Backyard Terrors Dinosaur Park
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Bon Aqua: Johnny Cash One Piece at a Time Cadillac
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Bradford: Skullbone Store
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Bristol: Birthplace of Tennessee Ernie Ford
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Bristol: Country Music Distribution Monument
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Bristol: South Holston Dam
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Brownsville: Billy Tripp's Mindfield
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Brownsville: Mindfield and Master Barber Shop Menagerie Museum
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Brownsville: Tina Turner Museum
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Bulls Gap: Archie Campbell Museum and Homeplace
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Burns: Big Catfish
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Camden: Only Freshwater Pearl Farm in North America
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Camden: Patsy Cline Crash Site Memorial
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Caryville: Big Green Dragon
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Centerville: Chicken Wire Minnie Pearl Head
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Centerville: Grinder's Switch: Minnie Pearl
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Chattanooga: Andrews Raiders Monument
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Chattanooga: Brick Truck Bench
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Chattanooga: Chattanooga Choo-Choo
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Chattanooga: German POW Graves
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Chattanooga: Head of the Sugar Flat Road Creature
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Chattanooga: International Towing and Recovery Museum
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Chattanooga: Large French Bulldog
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Chattanooga: Muffler Man - NASCAR Pit Crew Member
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Chattanooga: Nuts and Bolts Pizza Man
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Chattanooga: Ruby Falls
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Chattanooga: The Incline
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Chattanooga: [CONFIRM NOT ON PRIVATE RD] Beasley Castle
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Chestnut Hill: Bush's Beans Museum
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Clarksville: Frank Sutton: Gomer Pyle Nemesis
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Clarksville: Pink Elephant With Glasses
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Cleveland: Bloodstained Tomb of Nina Craigmiles
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Cleveland: Exhaust Parts Man
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Cleveland: Tow Mater Truck
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Clinton: Clinton Twelve Statues
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Clinton: Museum of Appalachia: Perpetual Motion Machine
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Collegedale: Little Debbie Park
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Columbia: Mule Capital of the World
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Columbia: Side-by-Side Sarcophagi of James K. Polk's Parents
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Cookeville: Bicycle Arch
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Cookeville: Ellie the Pink Elephant
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Cookeville: Grave of Dammit the Dog
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Cookeville: Hidden Hollow
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Cookeville: Mural of Ronald Reagan, a Great American
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Cordova: South's Tallest Three Crosses of Calvary
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Cornersville: Wyatt Archaeological Museum - Noah's Ark Found!
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Covington: Patriot Park - Skyhawk Attack Bomber
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Cowan: Restored Vintage Gas Station
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Cross Plains: Ape
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Cross Plains: Muffler Man - Indian
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Cross Plains: Pink Elephant With Martini Glass
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Crossville: Afrika Korps POW Camp
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Crossville: Military Memorial Museum
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Crossville: Rock City Barn
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Darden: Marker: Mills Darden the Giant
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Dayton: Car-o-lith
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Dayton: Clarence Darrow Statue
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Dayton: Scopes Monkey Trial
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Dayton: William Jennings Bryan Died Here
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Dyersburg: Doctor Octopus
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Elizabethton: Andrew Johnson Died Here
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Elizabethton: Yard Ornaments, Statues
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Elkmont: Mysterious Synchronous Fireflies
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Elkton: Giant Chicken With Chef Hat
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Erin: Meteor Crater Impact Marker
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Erwin: Big Mary the Elephant
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Farragut: Goonysaurus at Sir Goony's Golf
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Finger: Town Named Finger
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Five Points: The Big Red Store - Coffins, Moon Pies, Vintage
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Franklin: Bloodstained Floors of Widow of the South
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Franklin: House with 1,000 Civil War Bullet Holes
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Franklin: Rusty Mechanism
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Gainesboro: Flynn Creek Impact Crater
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Gainesboro: Strange Head of Andrew Jackson
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Gallatin: Muffler Man Holds Muffler
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Gatlinburg: Blindshot Barnaby's Circus Golf
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Gatlinburg: Fiji Merman
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Gatlinburg: Hillbilly Golf
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Gatlinburg: Hollywood Star Cars Museum
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Gatlinburg: Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers
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Gatlinburg: Scrap Metal Pizza Guy
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Gatlinburg: SkyBridge
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Gatlinburg: Space Needle
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Goodlettsville: Car Parts Transformer
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Grand Junction: National Bird Dog Museum
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Grand Junction: National Bird Dog Museum
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Granville: Mayberry Cutouts and Themes
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Gray: Gray Fossil Dig Site
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Gray: Most Powerful Musical Bi-Polar Tesla Coil
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Greenback: Junior Banks' Fortress of Faith
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Greeneville: Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
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Greeneville: Andrew Johnson's Backwards Birthplace
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Greeneville: Big Davy Crockett
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Greeneville: Bronze Andrew Johnson
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Greeneville: Cannonball in a Church Wall
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Greeneville: Death Spot of the Thunderbolt of the Confederacy
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Greeneville: Johnson Family Gallery
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Greeneville: Marble Andrew Johnson
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Greeneville: President Johnson's Towering Tombstone
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Harriman: Varicolored Veterans of Valor
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Harrogate: Lincoln Museum on Rebel Ground
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Hendersonville: Graves of Johnny and June Carter Cash
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Hermitage: Airplane Wing Sundial
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Hohenwald: Elephant Discovery Center
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Hornbeak: Large Crappie
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Huntsville: Historic Scott County Jail
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Hurricane Mills: Buffalo at Loretta Lynn's Kitchen
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Hurricane Mills: Loretta Lynn's Ranch and Museum
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Jackson: Book-Reading Praying Mantis
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Jackson: Casey Jones Pocket Watch of Death
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Jackson: Grave of Casey Jones
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Jackson: Restored Greyhound Bus Station
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Jackson: Rusty's TV and Movie Car Museum
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Jackson: Tree Stump House
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Johnson City: Grave of First Dead White Man in Tennessee
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Johnson City: Junaluska and the Arch of Friendship
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Johnson City: Marker: Last Boone Bear Tree
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Jonesborough: Photo-Op Pillory
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Kenton: Home of the White Squirrels
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Kingsport: Big Fries, Hot Dog, Shake
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Kingsport: Big John: Giant Native American
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Kingsport: Giant Hand: Molecule Master
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Kingsport: Muffler Man Holding a Hamburger
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Kingsport: Purple Cows
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Knoxville: "Shake, Buddy!" Civil War Monument
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Knoxville: Audacious Confederate Cemetery Monument
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Knoxville: Bicycle Arch
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Knoxville: Bleak House: Confederate Shrine
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Knoxville: Chainsaw Full-Color Eagle, Flag, Battle Cross
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Knoxville: Doomed Rachmaninoff's Final Concert
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Knoxville: Ephraim Dodd, Rebel Martyr
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Knoxville: Giant Alex "Roots" Haley
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Knoxville: Hypnotic Stairs
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Knoxville: John Sevier Tombstone, Iran Hostage Rescuer memorial
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Knoxville: Killed at the Speedway
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Knoxville: Large Basketball Atop Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
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Knoxville: Listen to your Mother: a Mom-ument
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Knoxville: Massacre That Saved Knoxville
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Knoxville: Monument to the Unknown Dead
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Knoxville: Museum of East Tennessee History
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Knoxville: Rebel Grave of Horne Brothers
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Knoxville: Rowing Man Sculpture - Oarsman
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Knoxville: Safety Follows Wisdom
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Knoxville: Smarthenge: The Circle of Thought
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Knoxville: Sultana, Worst Death Boat in U.S. History
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Knoxville: The Sunsphere
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Knoxville: The Torchbearer
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Knoxville: Vaccinating Big Baby
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Knoxville: World's Largest Rubik's Cube
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La Follette: Giant Cross
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LaFollette: Big Gas Station Food
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Land Between The Lakes: Great Western Furnace
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Lawrenceburg: 20-Foot-High Bowling Pin
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Lebanon: Army Tank
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Lebanon: Wall Of Honor
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Lewisburg: Goats, Music, and More (Fainting Goat Festival)
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Liberty: Mule on a Cliff
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Limestone: Davy Crockett Born on This Spot
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Linden: Bronze Statue of Minnie Pearl
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Livingston: Hometown Monument to the First American Killed in Vietnam
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Lookout Mountain: Battles for Chattanooga: Techno-Map
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Loudon: Giant Cross
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Loudon: The Bone Yard Family
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Lynchburg: Jack Daniel's Distillery Tour: Safe That Killed Daniel
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Lynchburg: Jack Daniel's Grave
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Lynchburg: Moore County Old Jail Museum
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Maryville: Rock City Barn
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Mason: Bozo's BBQ
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McMinnville: Cumberland Caverns, with a Chandelier
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McMinnville: MUFFLERSauR US - Dinosaur car parts sculpture
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Memphis: 25-Foot-Tall Statue of Ramesses II
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Memphis: Abandoned Birthplace of Aretha Franklin
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Memphis: Ancient Egypt Temple Zoo
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Memphis: Art Tigers
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Memphis: Beale Street
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Memphis: Big Fire Extinguisher
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Memphis: Billy Bass Adoption Center
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Memphis: Bronze Johnny Cash: First Performance
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Memphis: Burgers Cooked in 100-Year-Old Grease
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Memphis: Cancer Survivors Plaza
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Memphis: Charging Doughboy
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Memphis: Crystal Shrine Grotto
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Memphis: Danny Thomas Tomb, Statue, Mini-Museum
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Memphis: Elvis's Apartment
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Memphis: Elvis's Dojo and Death Ambulance
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Memphis: Elvis's First Home In Memphis
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Memphis: Elvis's High School
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Memphis: Fire Museum Of Memphis
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Memphis: Giant Wind Chime
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Memphis: Graceland
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Memphis: High School Viking Giant
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Memphis: Isaac Hayes Grave
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Memphis: Large Buddha Statue
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Memphis: Large Gorillas
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Memphis: Lopsided Dog
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Memphis: Lorraine Motel: National Civil Rights Museum
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Memphis: Mud Island
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Memphis: National Ornamental Metal Museum
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Memphis: Peabody Ducks
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Memphis: Piggly Wiggly Replica
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Memphis: Pyramid of Memphis
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Memphis: Riverboat Doorway
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Memphis: Schwab's Shoe Thief Bait
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Memphis: Statue of Elvis
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Memphis: Statue of Liberation Through Christ
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Memphis: Statue of Memphis Belle
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Memphis: Stax Museum of American Soul Music
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Memphis: Sun Studio: Birthplace of Rock
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Memphis: TCB Lightning Sculpture
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Memphis: The Cotton Museum
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Memphis: Tom Lee, Deemed Worthy by Monument
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Memphis: Tom Lee, Riverboat Disaster Hero
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Memphis: Twelve Pound Hamburgers
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Memphis: Vinyl Record Sign
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Memphis: Yellow Fever Martyrs Memorial and Mass Grave
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Midway: Memorial and Graves of the Bridge-Burners
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Milan: Dollhouse Grave of Dorothy Harvey
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Minor Hill: Sam Davis, Boy Hero, Captured Here
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Morristown: Davy Crockett Replica Tavern
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Morristown: Graveyard Memorial: USA's First Air Ace
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Mount Pleasant: Mt. Pleasant-Maury Phosphate Museum
- Munford (north of Memphis): Muffler Man - Transient
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Murfreesboro: Hank Williams Jr. Monday Night Football Jukebox
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Murfreesboro: Obelisk - Geographic Center of Tennessee
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Murfreesboro: World's Largest Cedar Bucket
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Nashville: 16-Foot-Tall Wisk
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Nashville: Award-Winning Art Deco Bathroom
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Nashville: Big Dragon on a Wall
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Nashville: Big Dripping Bird
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Nashville: Boy Scout Catfish
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Nashville: Bronze Bust of First American Killed in Vietnam
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Nashville: Concert Ticket Wall
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Nashville: Controversial "Musica" Statue
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Nashville: Cooter's Place: Dukes of Hazzard Museum
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Nashville: Country Music Museum: Gaudy Relics
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Nashville: Elvis Fortune Teller and Jukebox Guitar
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Nashville: Ernest Tubb's Tour Bus
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Nashville: Frog Mariachi Band
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Nashville: Giant Nashville Guitar Sign
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Nashville: Herd of Buffalo Statues
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Nashville: Human-Play Polar Bear Statues
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Nashville: Jam with Chet Atkins
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Nashville: Johnny Cash Museum
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Nashville: Lane Motor Museum
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Nashville: Mosaic Dragon
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Nashville: NashTrash Tour
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Nashville: Parthenon and Statue of Athena
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Nashville: Patsy Cline Museum
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Nashville: Pinkie: Pink Elephant
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Nashville: Sam Davis Shoe of Doom
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Nashville: Silo Mural of Lee Estes
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Nashville: Statue of Loretta Lynn
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Nashville: Statue of Sam Davis, Boy Hero of the Confederacy
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Nashville: Studio B
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Nashville: Suffragists Statue
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Nashville: Tombstone Made From Suicide Rock, Maybe
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Nashville: Topiary Bison - Salt Lick Bound!
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Nashville: Urinals Reptile Display
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Nashville: Voice-O-Graph Booth: Cut Your Own Record
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Nashville: Willie Nelson Fortune Teller
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Nashville: Worst Train Wreck in U.S. History
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New Market: Houston's Miracle Water: Angel-Approved
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Normandy: George Dickel Distillery Tour
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Oak Ridge: American Museum of Science and Energy
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Oak Ridge: Atom Age Gatehouse
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Oak Ridge: International Friendship Bell
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Oak Ridge: K-25 History Center
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Oak Ridge: X-10 Nuclear Reactor
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Ooltewah: Life-Size Stagecoach Robbery
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Pall Mall: Sergeant York's Grave
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Palmyra: E.T. Wickham Folk Art Angel
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Palmyra: E.T. Wickham's Folk Art
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Paris: Back Alley Paris
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Paris: Big Catfish
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Paris: Eiffel Tower Replica
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Petros: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
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Pigeon Forge: Alcatraz East
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Pigeon Forge: Bear Head Entrance
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Pigeon Forge: Big Alligator
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Pigeon Forge: Big Catfish
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Pigeon Forge: Big Rooster
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Pigeon Forge: Big Shark Store Entrance
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Pigeon Forge: Byrd's Famous Cookies Jar
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Pigeon Forge: Cooter's Place
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Pigeon Forge: Dollywood
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Pigeon Forge: Giant Car Parts Pizza Guy
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Pigeon Forge: Goats on the Roof and GoatCoaster
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Pigeon Forge: Hannah's Maze of Mirrors
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Pigeon Forge: Hatfield-McCoy Dinner Show
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Pigeon Forge: Hollywood Wax Museum
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Pigeon Forge: Jurassic Jungle Boat Ride
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Pigeon Forge: Lumberjack Feud
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Pigeon Forge: Outdoor Gravity Park
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Pigeon Forge: Paula Deen Restaurant: Butter Wonderland
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Pigeon Forge: Pigeon Forge - Gatlinburg - A Mecca
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Pigeon Forge: Restaurant of Robot Chickens
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Pigeon Forge: Three Bears General Store - Live Bears
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Pigeon Forge: Titanic: World's Largest Museum Attraction
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Pigeon Forge: Toy Box Mini-Golf
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Pigeon Forge: WonderWorks - Upside-down Building
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Pikeville: Backcountry Gourd Art Supermarket
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Pinson: Museum in a Mound
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Pioneer: USA Titan Fireworks Rocket
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Portland: Giant Crate of Strawberries
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Powell: Airplane Filling Station
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Powell: Ciderville
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Pulaski: Backwards Plaque Shuns the KKK
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Pulaski: Sam Davis Museum, Hanging Site
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Pulaski: Statue of Sam Davis, Rebel Martyr
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Roan Mountain: Grave of Tiger Whitehead: Killed 99 Bears
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Rockford: Big Goofy Metal Bird
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Rockwood: Boy Scout 1929 Flash Flood Memorial
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Rocky Top: The Miner's Circle - Mine Explosion Graves
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Rogersville: Memory Lane - Private 1950s Town
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Rutherford: Davy Crockett Cabin, Mom's Grave
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Rutledge: Rock City Barn - See 7 States
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Savannah: Catfish Capital of the World Sculpture
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Sevierville: Bertie the Money Dog
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Sevierville: Dolly Parton Statue
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Sevierville: Forbidden Caverns
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Sevierville: Islamic Building Christmas Store
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Sewanee: Lone Rock
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Sewanee: Natural Bridge
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Sewanee: Templeton Library and Statue
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Seymour: License Plate Sculptures
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Shady Valley: World's Shortest Highway Tunnel
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Shelbyville: Grave of Beautiful Jim Key, the Educated Horse
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Signal Mountain: Flying Saucer House
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Smyrna: Sam Davis Grave, Home, Museum
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Smyrna: Wayward Pizza Man
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South Pittsburg: Airplane Crashed in Parking Lot
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South Pittsburg: Cast Iron Cookware Family
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South Pittsburg: Stand On Three States At Once
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South Pittsburg: World's Largest Cast Iron Skillet
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Springville: Big Catfish On a Pole
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Sweetwater: The Lost Sea
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Tazewell: 1930 Gulf Gas Station
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Tazewell: Prepare to Meet God
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Telford: Born in a Boneyard: First Lady Eliza Johnson
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Tellico Plains: 12-Foot-Tall Dragon Mailbox
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Tellico Plains: Large Frying Pan
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Townsend: Tuckaleechee Caverns
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Trenton: World's Largest Teapot Collection
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Trentville: Coldest Beer in USA
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Trimble: Big Confederate Flag and Memorial Plaza
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Tusculum: President Andrew Johnson Museum
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Vardy: Cabin of Moonshiner (Too Large To Get Out Of Bed)
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Wartrace: Grave of Strolling Jim, Tennessee Walking Horse
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Waverly: Studebaker on a Stick
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Waverly: The Walls Art Park
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Whitwell: Holocaust Box Car with 11 Million Paper Clips
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Brentwood: Nathan Bedford Forrest Statue
- Bristol: Grand Guitar
- Chattanooga: Dragon Dreams Dragon Museum
- Clarksville: Pink Elephant
- Copperhill: Copper Miner
- Cosby: Moonshine Bar
- Crossville: The Minister's Tree House
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Dixon Springs: Cato Caves: Area of Mystery, Famous Pot Cave
- Gatlinburg: Christ in the Smokies Museum and Gardens
- Gatlinburg: Christus Gardens
- Gatlinburg: Cletus the Smoky Mountain Merman
- Gatlinburg: Dinosaur Golf
- Gatlinburg: Hollywood Wax Museum
- Gatlinburg: Xanadu: Home of the Future
- Goodlettsville: Museum of Beverage Containers and Advertising
- Jackson: Rock-a-billy Park
- Jackson: Rockabilly Hall of Fame: Elvis Defibrillator of Death
- Jackson: Safety Man on Ladder
- Jackson: Statue of Liber-Tree
- Kingsport: Mountain Music Museum
- Knoxville: Centaur of Tennessee
- Knoxville: Killed by a Yankee in Her Vegetable Patch
- Knoxville: RV Baby Carriage
- Madison: Pink Elephant
- Memphis: Beale Street Police Museum
- Memphis: Coin-Operated Elvis Shrine
- Memphis: Controversial Grave of Nathan Bedford Forrest
- Memphis: Jefferson Davis, Belated Tribute
- Memphis: Old Lady Who Lived in a Shoe
- Monteagle - Pelham: Wonder Cave
- Mount Pleasant: Lumpy's - Bizarre Eatery
- Nashville: Charlie Daniels Museum
- Nashville: Country Western Singer Statue
- Nashville: George Jones Museum
- Nashville: Microphone Bicycle Rack
- Nashville: Mother Teresa Miracle Nun Bun
- Nashville: Muffler Car Parts Man
- Nashville: Museum of Tobacco Art and History
- Nashville: Music Valley Wax Museum - Free Gift
- Nashville: Tour Home of Barbara Mandrell
- Oak Ridge: Atomic Speedway
- Oak Ridge: World Trade Center Made of Rusty Debris
- Pigeon Forge: 32-Foot-High Liberty Bell
- Pigeon Forge: Adventure Golf
- Pigeon Forge: Anita Bryant Show
- Pigeon Forge: Bunny Golf
- Pigeon Forge: Carbo's Smokey Mountain Police Museum
- Pigeon Forge: Church Civil War Dinner Theater
- Pigeon Forge: Dinosaur Walk Museum
- Pigeon Forge: Elvis and Hollywood Legends Museum
- Pigeon Forge: Mural of Lara Croft
- Pigeon Forge: National Enquirer Live!
- Pigeon Forge: National Freedom Museum
- Pigeon Forge: Pioneer - Pirate Statue
- Pigeon Forge: Porpoise Island
- Pigeon Forge: Rebel Railroad - Goldrush Junction - Silver Dollar City
- Savannah: Pink Lady Catfish
- Sevierville: Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Museum
- Sevierville: Monster Truck Rides
- Sevierville: Muffler Parts Family
- Sevierville: National Knife Museum
- Springfield: The Bullwinkle Machine
- Strawberry Plains: Circle G Ranch - Ride a Camel
- Tallassee: 21-Foot-Tall Dragon at "The Dragon"
- Whites Creek: Traffic Safety Cone Building
- Wildersville: Third Largest Pecan Tree in the World