Knoxville, Tennessee Attractions

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  American Museum of Science and Energy

  Oak Ridge, Tennessee

  Oak Ridge exists because of the atom bomb, but its science museum tries hard to get out from under that mushroom cloud. Among the exhibits: an Apollo moon box and the fingernails of a U.S. President.

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  Atom Age Gatehouse

  Oak Ridge, Tennessee

  Built during the depths of the Cold War to keep Communist spies away from a uranium plant. See the searchlight and gun portals; peer through the bulletproof glass.

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  National Enquirer Live!

  Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

  Shocking! Scandalous! Life-size dioramas of Michael Jackson dangling Blanket from a window and a chalk outline outside the O.J. murder house. Also, entire galleries devoted to Bigfoot and space aliens.

Sights for Oddball Excursions

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  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.

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  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.

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  Museum of Appalachia - Perpetual Motion Machine

  Clinton, Tennessee

  A rural living museum that surprises with devil burls, angel swirls, Apocalypse signage. 250,000 items.

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  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.

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  Pigeon Forge - Gatlinburg - A Mecca

  Pigeon Forge, Tennessee

  Sister tourist-towns sparkle like junk jewels on a necklace choking Great Smoky Mountains National Park.