Knoxville, Tennessee Attractions
Unusual landmarks, museums, roadside attractions, and hidden wonders in Knoxville and the surrounding area. East Tennessee nexus offers visitors a cityscape with the Sunsphere, plus a centaur skeleton, tributes to Rachmaninoff and Mom, and memorials to noteworthy catastrophes. Nearby: Airplane Gas Station and tours of the X-10 nuclear reactor!
New Reports
K-25 History Center
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Tells the story of the vast, secret plant that made the nuclear fuel for the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
The Sunsphere
Knoxville, Tennessee
Opened in 1982 for the Knoxville World's Fair, opened off and on since then.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
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, serial killer relics.
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.
Pigeon Forge - Gatlinburg - A Mecca
Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
Sister tourist-towns sparkle like junk jewels on a necklace choking Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
In and Around Knoxville
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Tennessee attractions.
- Powell: Airplane Filling Station
- Powell: Ciderville
- Pigeon Forge: Titanic: World's Largest Museum Attraction
- Pigeon Forge: Alcatraz East
- Oak Ridge: K-25 History Center
- Oak Ridge: American Museum of Science and Energy
- New Market: Houston's Miracle Water: Angel-Approved
- Knoxville: Centaur of Tennessee
- Knoxville: Bleak House: Confederate Shrine
- Knoxville: Giant Alex "Roots" Haley
- Gatlinburg: Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers
- Gatlinburg: Blindshot Barnaby's Circus Golf
- Alcoa: Millennium Manor
- Knoxville: World's Largest Rubik's Cube
- Knoxville: The Sunsphere
- Knoxville: Doomed Rachmaninoff's Final Concert
- Knoxville: Listen to your Mother: a Mom-ument
- Knoxville: Vaccinating Big Baby
- Knoxville: Rowing Man Sculpture - Oarsman [tips]
- Knoxville: Museum of East Tennessee History [tips]
- Knoxville: Bicycle Arch [tips]
