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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Killed at the Speedway
Knoxville, Tennessee
Dozens of drivers and spectators have been killed at the Indianapolis Speedway. A.J. Pete Kreis slumbers eternally beneath a stunning mortal exit tombstone.
Vaccinating Big Baby
Knoxville, Tennessee
Bronze statue of a bald, bespectacled men in a business suit holding an unnaturally large baby, while sitting on the Earth.
Giant Alex "Roots" Haley
Knoxville, Tennessee
13-foot-high bronze statue of the author of "Roots," posed as if he's pausing from reading a book to stare at you.
Millennium Manor
Alcoa, Tennessee
Built to survive "Armageddon and a thousand years beyond." William and Emma Fair Nicholson erected their indestructible home in 1938-45, when they were in their sixties.
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.
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.

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.