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 | Pigeon Forge
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Adamsville: Buford Pusser Died Here - Adamsville: Home of Buford "Walking Tall" Pusser
- Adams: Bell Witch Cave
- Adams: Bell Witch Museum
- Alcoa: Millennium Manor
- Antioch: The Gift
- Arrington: Renaissance-Lover's Castle
- Athens: Big Cows, Ice Cream - Dairy Tour
- Athens: Nocatula and Connestoga
- Beech Grove: Grave of Old Isham, Rebel War Horse
- Bellevue: Dinosaurs, Animals Gated In Yard
- Blountville: Appalachian Caverns
- Blountville: UFO And Aliens in Yard
- Bluff City: Backyard Terrors Dinosaur Park
- Bon Aqua: Johnny Cash One Piece at a Time Cadillac
- Bradford: Doodle Soup Capital of the World
- Bradford: Skullbone Store
- Bristol: Birthplace of Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Bristol: Country Music Distribution Monument
- Bristol: South Holston Dam
- Brownsville: Billy Tripp's Mindfield
- Brownsville: Mindfield and Master Barber Shop Menagerie Museum
- Brownsville: Tina Turner Museum
- Bulls Gap: Archie Campbell Museum and Homeplace
- Burns: Big Catfish
- Camden: Only Freshwater Pearl Farm in North America
- Camden: Patsy Cline Crash Site Memorial
- Caryville: Big Green Dragon
- Centerville: Chicken Wire Minnie Pearl Head
- Centerville: Grinder's Switch: Minnie Pearl
- Chattanooga: Andrews Raiders Monument
- Chattanooga: Brick Truck Bench
- Chattanooga: Chattanooga Choo-Choo
- Chattanooga: German POW Graves
- Chattanooga: International Towing and Recovery Museum
- Chattanooga: Large French Bulldog
- Chattanooga: Muffler Man - NASCAR Pit Crew Member
- Chattanooga: Nuts and Bolts Pizza Man
- Chattanooga: Ruby Falls
- Chattanooga: The Incline
- Chestnut Hill: Bush's Beans Museum
- Clarksville: Frank Sutton: Gomer Pyle Nemesis
- Clarksville: Pink Elephant With Glasses
- Cleveland: Bloodstained Tomb of Nina Craigmiles
- Cleveland: Exhaust Parts Man
- Cleveland: Tow Mater Truck
- Clinton: Clinton Twelve Statues
- Clinton: Museum of Appalachia: Perpetual Motion Machine
- Collierville: Speed Limit 19 MPH
- Columbia: Mule Capital of the World
- Columbia: Side-by-Side Sarcophagi of James K. Polk's Parents
- Cookeville: Bicycle Arch
- Cookeville: Ellie the Pink Elephant
- Cookeville: Grave of Dammit the Dog
- Cookeville: Hidden Hollow
- Cookeville: Mural of Ronald Reagan, a Great American
- Cordova: World's Tallest Three Crosses of Calvary
- Cornersville: Wyatt Archaeological Museum - Noah's Ark Found!
- Covington: Patriot Park - Skyhawk Attack Bomber
- Cowan: Restored Vintage Gas Station
- Cross Plains: Ape
- Cross Plains: Muffler Man - Indian
- Cross Plains: Pink Elephant With Martini Glass
- Crossville: Rock City Barn
- Darden: Marker: Mills Darden the Giant
- Dayton: Car-o-lith
- Dayton: Clarence Darrow Statue
- Dayton: Scopes Monkey Trial
- Dayton: William Jennings Bryan Died Here
- Elizabethton: Andrew Johnson Died Here
- Elizabethton: Yard Ornaments, Statues
- Elkmont: Mysterious Synchronous Fireflies
- Elkton: Giant Chicken With Chef Hat
- Erin: Meteor Crater Impact Marker
- Erwin: Big Mary the Elephant
- Farragut: Goonysaurus at Sir Goony's Golf
- Finger: Town Named Finger
- Five Points: The Big Red Store - Coffins, Moon Pies, Vintage
- Franklin: Bloodstained Floors of Widow of the South
- Franklin: House with 1,000 Civil War Bullet Holes
- Franklin: Rusty Mechanism
- Gainesboro: Flynn Creek Impact Crater
- Gainesboro: Strange Head of Andrew Jackson
- Gallatin: Muffler Man Holds Muffler
- Gatlinburg: Blindshot Barnaby's Circus Golf
- Gatlinburg: Fiji Merman
- Gatlinburg: Hillbilly Golf
- Gatlinburg: Hollywood Star Cars Museum
- Gatlinburg: Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers
- Gatlinburg: Scrap Metal Pizza Guy
- Gatlinburg: SkyBridge
- Gatlinburg: Space Needle
- Goodlettsville: Car Parts Transformer
- Grand Junction: National Bird Dog Museum
- Grand Junction: National Bird Dog Museum
- Gray: Gray Fossil Dig Site
- Gray: Most Powerful Musical Bi-Polar Tesla Coil
- Greenback: Junior Banks' Fortress of Faith
- Greeneville: Andrew Johnson National Historic Site
- Greeneville: Andrew Johnson's Backwards Birthplace
- Greeneville: Big Davy Crockett
- Greeneville: Bronze Andrew Johnson
- Greeneville: Cannonball in a Church Wall
- Greeneville: Death Spot of the Thunderbolt of the Confederacy
- Greeneville: Johnson Family Gallery
- Greeneville: Marble Andrew Johnson
- Greeneville: President Johnson's Towering Tombstone
- Harriman: Varicolored Veterans of Valor
- Harrogate: Lincoln Museum on Rebel Ground
- Hendersonville: Graves of Johnny and June Carter Cash
- Hermitage: Airplane Wing Sundial
- Hohenwald: Elephant Discovery Center
- Hornbeak: Large Crappie
- Hurricane Mills: Buffalo at Loretta Lynn's Kitchen
- Hurricane Mills: Loretta Lynn's Ranch and Museum
- Jackson: Book-Reading Praying Mantis
- Jackson: Casey Jones Pocket Watch of Death
- Jackson: Grave of Casey Jones
- Jackson: Restored Greyhound Bus Station
- Jackson: Rusty's TV and Movie Car Museum
- Jackson: Tree Stump House
- Johnson City: Grave of First Dead White Man in Tennessee
- Johnson City: Junaluska and the Arch of Friendship
- Johnson City: Marker: Last Boone Bear Tree
- Jonesborough: Photo-Op Pillory
- Kenton: Home of the White Squirrels
- Kingsport: Big Fries, Hot Dog, Shake
- Kingsport: Big John: Giant Native American
- Kingsport: Giant Hand: Molecule Master
- Kingsport: Muffler Man Holding a Hamburger
- Kingsport: Purple Cows
- Knoxville: "Shake, Buddy!" Civil War Monument
- Knoxville: Audacious Confederate Cemetery Monument
- Knoxville: Bicycle Arch
- Knoxville: Bleak House: Confederate Shrine
- Knoxville: Centaur of Tennessee
- Knoxville: Chainsaw Full-Color Eagle, Flag, Battle Cross
- Knoxville: Doomed Rachmaninoff's Final Concert
- Knoxville: Ephraim Dodd, Rebel Martyr
- Knoxville: Giant Alex "Roots" Haley
- Knoxville: Hypnotic Stairs
- Knoxville: John Sevier Tombstone, Iran Hostage Rescuer memorial
- Knoxville: Killed at the Speedway
- Knoxville: Killed by a Yankee in Her Vegetable Patch
- Knoxville: Large Basketball Atop Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
- Knoxville: Listen to your Mother: a Mom-ument
- Knoxville: Massacre That Saved Knoxville
- Knoxville: Monument to the Unknown Dead
- Knoxville: Museum of East Tennessee History
- Knoxville: Rebel Grave of Horne Brothers
- Knoxville: Rowing Man Sculpture - Oarsman
- Knoxville: Safety Follows Wisdom
- Knoxville: Smarthenge: The Circle of Thought
- Knoxville: Sultana, Worst Death Boat in U.S. History
- Knoxville: The Sunsphere
- Knoxville: The Torchbearer
- Knoxville: Vaccinating Big Baby
- Knoxville: World's Largest Rubik's Cube
- La Follette: Giant Cross
- LaFollette: Big Gas Station Food
- Land Between The Lakes: Great Western Furnace
- Lawrenceburg: 20-Foot-High Bowling Pin
- Lebanon: Army Tank
- Lebanon: Head of the Sugar Flat Road Creature
- Lebanon: Wall Of Honor
- Lewisburg: Goats, Music, and More (Fainting Goat Festival)
- Liberty: Mule on a Cliff
- Limestone: Davy Crockett Born on This Spot
- Linden: Bronze Statue of Minnie Pearl
- Livingston: Hometown Monument to the First American Killed in Vietnam
- Lookout Mountain: Battles for Chattanooga: Techno-Map
- Loudon: Giant Cross
- Loudon: The Bone Yard Family
- Lynchburg: Jack Daniel's Distillery Tour: Safe That Killed Daniel
- Lynchburg: Jack Daniel's Grave
- Lynchburg: Moore County Old Jail Museum
- Maryville: Rock City Barn
- Mason: Bozo's BBQ
- McMinnville: Cumberland Caverns, with a Chandelier
- McMinnville: MUFFLERSauR US - Dinosaur car parts sculpture
- Memphis: 25-Foot-Tall Statue of Ramesses II
- Memphis: Abandoned Birthplace of Aretha Franklin
- Memphis: Ancient Egypt Temple Zoo
- Memphis: Art Tigers
- Memphis: Beale Street
- Memphis: Big Fire Extinguisher
- Memphis: Big Foot Lodge - Sasquatch Burger
- Memphis: Billy Bass Adoption Center
- Memphis: Bronze Johnny Cash: First Performance
- Memphis: Burgers Cooked in 100-Year-Old Grease
- Memphis: Cancer Survivors Plaza
- Memphis: Charging Doughboy
- Memphis: Crystal Shrine Grotto
- Memphis: Danny Thomas Tomb, Statue, Mini-Museum
- Memphis: Elvis's Apartment
- Memphis: Elvis's Dojo and Death Ambulance
- Memphis: Elvis's First Home In Memphis
- Memphis: Elvis's High School
- Memphis: Fire Museum Of Memphis
- Memphis: Giant Wind Chime
- Memphis: Graceland
- Memphis: High School Viking Giant
- Memphis: Isaac Hayes Grave
- Memphis: Large Buddha Statue
- Memphis: Large Gorillas
- Memphis: Lopsided Dog
- Memphis: Lorraine Motel: National Civil Rights Museum
- Memphis: Mud Island
- Memphis: National Ornamental Metal Museum
- Memphis: Peabody Ducks
- Memphis: Piggly Wiggly Replica
- Memphis: Pyramid of Memphis
- Memphis: Riverboat Doorway
- Memphis: Schwab's Shoe Thief Bait
- Memphis: Statue of Elvis
- Memphis: Statue of Liberation Through Christ
- Memphis: Statue of Memphis Belle
- Memphis: Stax Museum of American Soul Music
- Memphis: Sun Studio: Birthplace of Rock
- Memphis: TCB Lightning Sculpture
- Memphis: The Cotton Museum
- Memphis: Tom Lee, Deemed Worthy by Monument
- Memphis: Tom Lee, Riverboat Disaster Hero
- Memphis: Twelve Pound Hamburgers
- Memphis: Vinyl Record Sign
- Memphis: Yellow Fever Martyrs Memorial and Mass Grave
- Midway: Memorial and Graves of the Bridge-Burners
- Milan: Dollhouse Grave of Dorothy Harvey
- Minor Hill: Sam Davis, Boy Hero, Captured Here
- Morristown: Davy Crockett Replica Tavern
- Morristown: Graveyard Memorial: USA's First Air Ace
- Mount Pleasant: Mt. Pleasant-Maury Phosphate Museum
- Munford (north of Memphis): Muffler Man - Transient
- Murfreesboro: Hank Williams Jr. Monday Night Football Jukebox
- Murfreesboro: Obelisk - Geographic Center of Tennessee
- Murfreesboro: World's Largest Cedar Bucket
- Nashville: 16-Foot-Tall Wisk
- Nashville: Award-Winning Art Deco Bathroom
- Nashville: Big Dragon on a Wall
- Nashville: Big Dripping Bird
- Nashville: Boy Scout Catfish
- Nashville: Bronze Bust of First American Killed in Vietnam
- Nashville: Concert Ticket Wall
- Nashville: Controversial "Musica" Statue
- Nashville: Cooter's Place: Dukes of Hazzard Museum
- Nashville: Country Music Museum: Gaudy Relics
- Nashville: Elvis Fortune Teller and Jukebox Guitar
- Nashville: Ernest Tubb's Tour Bus
- Nashville: Frog Mariachi Band
- Nashville: Giant Nashville Guitar Sign
- Nashville: Herd of Buffalo Statues
- Nashville: Human-Play Polar Bear Statues
- Nashville: Jam with Chet Atkins
- Nashville: Johnny Cash Museum
- Nashville: Lane Motor Museum
- Nashville: Microphone Bicycle Rack
- Nashville: Mosaic Dragon
- Nashville: NashTrash Tour
- Nashville: Parthenon and Statue of Athena
- Nashville: Patsy Cline Museum
- Nashville: Pinkie: Pink Elephant
- Nashville: Sam Davis Shoe of Doom
- Nashville: Silo Mural of Lee Estes
- Nashville: Statue of Loretta Lynn
- Nashville: Statue of Sam Davis, Boy Hero of the Confederacy
- Nashville: Studio B
- Nashville: Suffragists Statue
- Nashville: Tombstone Made From Suicide Rock, Maybe
- Nashville: Topiary Bison - Salt Lick Bound!
- Nashville: Tour Home of Barbara Mandrell
- Nashville: Urinals Reptile Display
- Nashville: Voice-O-Graph Booth: Cut Your Own Record
- Nashville: Willie Nelson Fortune Teller
- Nashville: Worst Train Wreck in U.S. History
- New Market: Houston's Miracle Water: Angel-Approved
- Normandy: George Dickel Distillery Tour
- Oak Ridge: American Museum of Science and Energy
- Oak Ridge: Atom Age Gatehouse
- Oak Ridge: International Friendship Bell
- Oak Ridge: K-25 History Center
- Oak Ridge: X-10 Nuclear Reactor
- Pall Mall: Sergeant York's Grave
- Palmyra: E.T. Wickham Folk Art Angel
- Palmyra: E.T. Wickham's Folk Art
- Paris: Back Alley Paris
- Paris: Big Catfish
- Paris: Eiffel Tower Replica
- Petros: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
- Pigeon Forge: Alcatraz East
- Pigeon Forge: Bear Head Entrance
- Pigeon Forge: Big Alligator
- Pigeon Forge: Big Catfish
- Pigeon Forge: Big Rooster
- Pigeon Forge: Big Shark Store Entrance
- Pigeon Forge: Byrd's Famous Cookies Jar
- Pigeon Forge: Church Civil War Dinner Theater
- Pigeon Forge: Dollywood
- Pigeon Forge: Dukes of Hazzard Mini-Museum
- Pigeon Forge: Giant Car Parts Pizza Guy
- Pigeon Forge: Goats on the Roof and Alpine Coaster
- Pigeon Forge: Hannah's Maze of Mirrors
- Pigeon Forge: Hatfield-McCoy Dinner Show
- Pigeon Forge: Hollywood Wax Museum
- Pigeon Forge: Lumberjack Feud
- Pigeon Forge: Paula Deen Restaurant: Butter Wonderland
- Pigeon Forge: Pigeon Forge - Gatlinburg - A Mecca
- Pigeon Forge: Restaurant of Robot Chickens
- Pigeon Forge: Three Bears General Store - Live Bears
- Pigeon Forge: Titanic: World's Largest Museum Attraction
- Pigeon Forge: WonderWorks - Upside-down Building
- Pigeon Forge: Zorbing - Outdoor Gravity Park
- Pikeville: Backcountry Gourd Art Supermarket
- Pinson: Museum in a Mound
- Pioneer: USA Titan Fireworks Rocket
- Portland: Giant Crate of Strawberries
- Powell: Airplane Filling Station
- Powell: Ciderville
- Pulaski: Backwards Plaque Shuns the KKK
- Pulaski: Sam Davis Museum, Hanging Site
- Pulaski: Statue of Sam Davis, Rebel Martyr
- Roan Mountain: Grave of Tiger Whitehead: Killed 99 Bears
- Rockford: Big Goofy Metal Bird
- Rockwood: Boy Scout 1929 Flash Flood Memorial
- Rocky Top: The Miner's Circle - Mine Explosion Graves
- Rogersville: Memory Lane - Private 1950s Town
- Rutherford: Davy Crockett Cabin, Mom's Grave
- Rutledge: Rock City Barn - See 7 States
- Savannah: Catfish Capital of the World Sculpture
- Sevierville: Dolly Parton Statue
- Sevierville: Forbidden Caverns
- Sevierville: Islamic Building Christmas Store
- Sewanee: Lone Rock
- Sewanee: Natural Bridge
- Sewanee: Templeton Library and Statue
- Seymour: License Plate Sculptures
- Shady Valley: World's Shortest Highway Tunnel
- Shelbyville: Grave of Beautiful Jim Key, the Educated Horse
- Signal Mountain: Flying Saucer House
- Smyrna: Sam Davis Grave, Home, Museum
- Smyrna: Wayward Pizza Man
- South Pittsburg: Airplane Crashed in Parking Lot
- South Pittsburg: Cast Iron Cookware Family
- South Pittsburg: Stand On Three States At Once
- Springville: Big Catfish On a Pole
- Sweetwater: The Lost Sea
- Tazewell: 1930 Gulf Gas Station
- Tazewell: Prepare to Meet God
- Telford: Born in a Boneyard: First Lady Eliza Johnson
- Tellico Plains: 12-Foot-Tall Dragon Mailbox
- Tellico Plains: Large Frying Pan
- Townsend: Tuckaleechee Caverns
- Trenton: 31 MPH Speed Limit
- Trenton: World's Largest Teapot Collection
- Trentville: Coldest Beer in USA
- Trimble: Big Confederate Flag and Memorial Plaza
- Tusculum: President Andrew Johnson Museum
- Vardy: Cabin of Moonshiner (Too Large To Get Out Of Bed)
- Wartrace: Grave of Strolling Jim, Tennessee Walking Horse
- Waverly: Studebaker on a Stick
- Waverly: The Walls Art Park
- 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
- 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: 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: Mother Teresa Miracle Nun Bun
- Nashville: Muffler Car Parts Man
- Nashville: Museum of Tobacco Art and History
- Nashville: Music Valley Wax Museum - Free Gift
- 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: 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
