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!
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The Sunsphere
Knoxville, Tennessee
Opened in 1982 for the Knoxville World's Fair, opened off and on since then.
Smarthenge: The Circle of Thought
Knoxville, Tennessee
Rather than lintels and sarsen stones, a mysterious outdoor circle is of marble heads on pillars -- supposedly the most worthy thinkers of all time.
Giant Alex "Roots" Haley
Knoxville, Tennessee
13-foot-high bronze statue of the author of "Roots," rendered as if he's pausing from reading a book to stare at you.
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: 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]
- Knoxville: Large Basketball Atop Women's Basketball Hall of Fame [tips]
