Museum of Appalachia

Steve’s take

A Smithsonian affiliate sitting in a sixty-five-acre village of original log cabins, with everything from Daniel Boone's gun to a two-headed pig in a jar. The Museum of Appalachia is the real deal — not a recreation, not a theme park, but actual buildings and artifacts from mountain life collected over decades. Your kids might not fully appreciate it, but the barn full of handmade instruments and the working farm animals will hold their attention. Right off I-75 north of Knoxville.