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
Bleak House: Confederate Shrine
Knoxville, Tennessee
Bullet holes, Rebel relics, the bloody death spot of three Confederate snipers, and a decidedly pro-South view of "The War of Northern Aggression" (the Civil War).
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, plus a hands-on CSI lab, serial killer relics, and much more.
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.
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
- Pigeon Forge: Titanic: World's Largest Museum Attraction
- Pigeon Forge: Alcatraz East
- Knoxville: Centaur of Tennessee
- Knoxville: Bleak House: Confederate Shrine
- Gatlinburg: Museum of Salt and Pepper Shakers
- Gatlinburg: Blindshot Barnaby's Circus Golf
- Knoxville: World's Largest Rubik's Cube
- Knoxville: The Sunsphere [tips]
- Knoxville: Doomed Rachmaninoff's Final Concert
- Knoxville: Listen to your Mother: a Mom-ument
- Knoxville: Rowing Man Sculpture - Oarsman [tips]
- Knoxville: Large Basketball Atop Women's Basketball Hall of Fame [tips]
- Knoxville: Audacious Confederate Cemetery Monument
- Knoxville: Monument to the Unknown Dead
- Knoxville: Ephraim Dodd, Rebel Martyr
- Knoxville: Worst Death Boat in U.S. History
- Rockford: Big Goofy Metal Bird
- Knoxville: Safety Follows Wisdom
- Knoxville: Massacre That Saved Knoxville
- Alcoa: Millennium Manor [tips]
