The building with the collapsing clock tower, across from the Titanic, opened in June 2019 as National Enquirer Live — and Beyond the Lens is what it became: a pop-culture and selfie museum of alien egg pits, a screaming baby Sasquatch, a human kaleidoscope, red carpets and celebrity history, with the tabloid backstory still attached to the walls. The Carpetbagger's deep-history tour at the top of this page tells the whole lineage on a winter evening; the 2019 In The Loop film catches the original Enquirer version on a $13 Groupon.
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3 videos · summaries from the actual guidesThe rooms
Child-star and Shirley Temple exhibits anchor the history side; arcade-style games are woven through the museum rooms; the app runs a celebrity-pet scavenger hunt inside. Yankee in the South, who attended the original opening, returned on a rainy day to document the swap: Enquirer artifacts out, a VR simulator and pop-culture history in, Dolly's 'you're famous now' moment intact.
The FlyRide
The combo is the standing recommendation in the full-tour review: museum plus FlyRide together. The flying theater gets its own full-ride POV at the end of the page. A 30%-off code is shared at the end of that review — as filmed; codes expire, and the film is the record of the offer, not a promise of it.
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3 videos · summaries from the actual guidesThe verdict the hosts keep landing on
Much of the history here is Enquirer-born and far-fetched — and, per the couple who worked every room, that is the fun of it. The grandkids' visit film is mostly family audio; it is cataloged as watch content and says so.
Sources: the 9 videos on this page, filmed at Beyond the Lens in Pigeon Forge between 2019 and 2026.
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