These quirky destinations include a dinosaur park, a bean museum and an underground lake. East Tennessee is known as a top tourist destination.

Stacker investigated the number of dinosaur fossils found in Tennessee using data from the Paleobiology Database.

Dinosaurs - well, sculptures of them - populate the Backyard Terrors Dinosaur Park in Sullivan County.© Caitie McMekin/News Sentinel ...

Watch prehistoric figures come to life at one East Tennessee park filled with more than 80 life-sized dinosaurs.

But one Bluff City man and his friends have turned their yard art into a dinosaur park. It began as a small child with a thirst for all he could learn about dinosaurs.

Stacker investigated the number of dinosaur fossils found in Tennessee using data from the Paleobiology Database.

Stacker investigated the number of dinosaur fossils found in Tennessee using data from the Paleobiology Database.

Sullivan County says Chris Kastner's much-loved homemade dinosaur park needs improvements. Kastner said the donation-based park can't keep up, financially.