Oak Ridge, Tennessee Attractions
Unusual landmarks, museums, roadside attractions, and hidden wonders in Oak Ridge and the surrounding area.
Sights for Oddball Excursions
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.
Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
Petros, Tennessee
Hard time prison-turned-tourist attraction, with former convicts as expert tour guides.
The Lost Sea
Sweetwater, Tennessee
It's been lost in a cave. See the sea by boat. It's really a lake, not a sea, but it has hungry fish and helpful tour guides.
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.
In and Around Oak Ridge
Choice field reports and tips. Or check out: Complete list of Tennessee attractions.
- Sweetwater: The Lost Sea
- Sweetwater: The Lost Sea
- Powell: Airplane Filling Station
- Powell: Ciderville
- Petros: Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary
- Oak Ridge: K-25 History Center
- Oak Ridge: American Museum of Science and Energy
- Knoxville: Centaur of Tennessee
- Knoxville: Bleak House: Confederate Shrine
- Knoxville: Giant Alex "Roots" Haley
- Harriman: Varicolored Veterans of Valor
- Alcoa: Millennium Manor
- Oak Ridge: X-10 Nuclear Reactor
- Oak Ridge: Atom Age Gatehouse
- Clinton: Clinton Twelve Statues [tips]
- Farragut: Goonysaurus at Sir Goony's Golf
- Knoxville: Massacre That Saved Knoxville
- Rocky Top: The Miner's Circle - Mine Explosion Graves [tips]
- Loudon: The Bone Yard Family [tips]
- Caryville: Big Green Dragon [tips]
- Clinton: Museum of Appalachia: Perpetual Motion Machine
