Pigeon Forge's museum row is gloriously miscellaneous: a half-scale Titanic, a true-crime prison, wax figures you pose with, a tabloid museum, a Bible museum, a bean museum and a muscle-car collection. These eight films tour them all, several with access regular visitors don't get.

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3 videos · summaries from the actual guides

Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge Tennessee Full Tour

Adventure Is Out There

Adventure Is Out There tour the Pigeon Forge Titanic Museum with special filming permission — the museum normally restricts cameras — covering what it costs, which artifacts can't be shown, and a meeting with a man who has actually dived to the wreck. The deepest inside look on this page.

Key takeaways
  • Filmed with special permission — cameras are normally restricted
  • Some artifacts cannot be shown even here; highlights only
  • Includes a meeting with a diver who has been down to the wreck

Dahmer’s Glasses, Gacy’s Clown Suits & Much More! Alcatraz East True Crime Museum FULL TOUR!

Sabol Family Vlogs' full 2025 tour of Alcatraz East: Dahmer's glasses, Gacy's clown suits and paint set, the prison-yard exterior with its escaping inmate, and gallery after gallery of true-crime artifacts in the 19th-century-prison-styled building.

Key takeaways
  • Headliners: Dahmer's glasses, Gacy's clown suits
  • The exterior is a full prison set — escaping inmate included
  • A complete 2025 walkthrough of every gallery

Hollywood Wax Museum - Pigeon Forge, TN

The Carpetbagger's 2020 tour explains the new-model wax museum — no tableaus behind plastic, but figures staged for selfies — under the building's Hollywood Mount Rushmore (John Wayne, Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, Charlie Chaplin) and its plane-grabbing King Kong.

Key takeaways
  • Figures are staged for selfies, not behind plastic
  • Outdoor 'Hollywood Rushmore': Wayne, Elvis, Marilyn, Chaplin
  • King Kong grips a plane on the roof

The ship and the prison

The Titanic tour was filmed with special permission — cameras are normally restricted — and includes a meeting with a man who has dived to the wreck. Alcatraz East's full 2025 tour works gallery by gallery: Dahmer's glasses, Gacy's clown suits, the prison-yard set outside. Both are half-day museums, not walk-throughs.

The pop-culture wing

The Hollywood Wax Museum's modern model — figures staged for selfies under its rooftop King Kong and 'Hollywood Rushmore' — and Beyond the Lens (born in 2019 as National Enquirer Live: alien egg pit, screaming baby Sasquatch) cover the tabloid-pop end. The Biblical Times museum half — burial cloth, nails, seated presentations — can be visited without a dinner ticket.

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Alien Egg Pit and Screaming Baby Sasquatch at Beyond the Lens! Pigeon Forge, TN

The Carpetbagger's deep history tour: the collapsing-clock-tower building opened in June 2019 as National Enquirer Live before becoming Beyond the Lens, and this winter-evening visit works through the alien egg pit, the screaming baby Sasquatch and the pop-culture exhibits with the tabloid backstory attached.

Key takeaways
  • Opened June 2019 as National Enquirer Live; rebranded since
  • Signature sights: alien egg pit and the baby Sasquatch
  • The building's clock tower 'collapses' by design

Exploring the Bible Times Museum | Pigeon Forge, TN Travel Vlog

The Samuels (Jo&Yo)

The Samuels tour the theater's museum half: the burial cloth ('the cloth that Jesus laid in'), nails and spears, and the seated presentations that walk Bible scenes in sequence — the part of Biblical Times you can visit without a dinner ticket.

Key takeaways
  • The museum covers the burial cloth, nails and spears
  • Seated presentations walk Bible scenes in sequence
  • The museum half can be visited without a dinner ticket

The Bean Museum! Newly Renovated Bush's Beans Visitor Center - Bush's Best Family Cafe - Bean Pie!

The Carpetbagger

The Carpetbagger returns to the Bean Museum in Chestnut Hill in 2023 to see the refurbished exhibits, entering through the A.J. Bush & Co. general-store gift shop. He also tells the Duke story properly: the commercials' golden retriever was one real dog who was never replaced after he died. Beans have been made across the street in Chestnut Hill the whole time.

Key takeaways
  • You enter through the A.J. Bush & Co. general-store gift shop
  • Duke was one real golden retriever, never replaced after his death
  • The museum was freshly refurbished for this 2023 visit

The wonderfully specific

The Bush's Bean Museum (refurbished 2023; Duke was one real dog, never replaced), Floyd Garrett's 93 muscle cars toured by Garrett himself, and the Knife Works' Relic Room — a museum where the antiques are for sale, fish fossils 48–53 million years old included.

Sources: the 8 videos on this page, filmed at museums in Pigeon Forge, Sevierville and Chestnut Hill.

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Muscle Car Museum | Volkswagen Beetle History

MyClassicCarTV

Dennis Gage of My Classic Car walks Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Museum in Sevierville with Garrett himself. The North Florida native picked Sevierville for its car-show scene; at filming the museum held 93 cars totaling some 30,000 horsepower — 'enough to pull the state of Tennessee out of the Union,' one customer joked. Highlight: a 1964 Ford Thunderbolt lightweight, fiberglass panels and Lexan glass over a 427 FE rated at 425 horsepower.

Key takeaways
  • Founder Floyd Garrett gives the tour himself
  • 93 cars and ~30,000 combined horsepower at filming
  • Garrett chose Sevierville for its car-show scene

The Relic Room At The Smoky Mountain Knife Works

Yankee in the South

Yankee in the South duck into the Relic Room, the antiques shop inside Smoky Mountain Knife Works in Sevierville, where the museum pieces are actually for sale: Civil War-era cigars and artifacts, fish fossils 48 to 53 million years old, a 1940s Tibetan temple bell, a World War II war-bond poster and vintage toys, most priced in the tens of dollars. The store's animatronic creature band performs nearby.

Key takeaways
  • The Relic Room sells antiques inside the knife store — museum pieces with price tags
  • Civil War artifacts, 48-53 million-year-old fish fossils, WWII posters
  • Most items priced in the tens of dollars

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