For $27 you can experience the sinking of the Titanic – in landlocked Tennessee — theguardian.com

The Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, wants me to die. Or at least, it wants me to imagine what it would be like. I’m standing in the parking lot, looking up at a half-scale, 30,000-square-foot re-creation of the front half of the doomed ocean liner. A water fountain wraps around the Titanic’s bow, like a controlled sea. Above me, the lifeboats are still tethered to her side. The attraction is the brainchild of John Joslyn, who in 1987, two years after the discovery of the Titanic, led a $6m expedition to recover a number of artifacts from the ocean floor. He and his team brought up many of the 400-plus objects that are now on display in Pigeon Forge, and at its sister museum in Branson, Missouri.

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