It's a pretty unforgettable attraction, and one that will add some edutainment to your Branson adventure. At the end, right before the gift shop, you get to learn what happened to your assigned person.
The "Sinking Room" features slanted decks and the chance to feel how cold the water was the night the ship went down, which is a sobering experience. You get a boarding pass with a real passenger or crewmember's name, and as you tour the "ship,” from a first class stateroom to the engine room, you can talk to costumed interpreters and try to guess your fate. The self-proclaimed “world’s largest museum attraction" is inspired by the famously tragic tale of the doomed ocean liner, once called "unsinkable,” this replica of the boat hitting the iceberg is also an interactive museum that lets you experience being on the ship. One of the more offbeat places to visit is Branson's Titanic Museum. Today, visitors to Silver Dollar City can tour the famed attraction ramps and stairs wind 500 feet below ground, and a cable train brings tourists half a mile up back to the surface!īranson has a touch of kitsch, too. In 1950, it was sold again, this time to Hugo Herschend, who added a lot of modern updates to the cave, and later built a theme park, Silver Dollar City, on top. William Lynch bought it in 1889 and opened it to the public.
The cave has proved to be far from useless, though it's actually been very popular as a show cave. Bransons Promised Land Zoo Butterfly Palace & Rainforest Adventure The Track Family Fun Parks White Water Worlds Largest Toy Museum Titanic Museum.
For awhile, many hoped that marble or lead ore could be mined from it, but no valuable minerals were ever found inside. Legend has it that the Bald Knobbers, an early vigilante group, would throw their enemies off Roark Mountain and into the cave. The Osage Indians and early Spanish settlers likely discovered it and were the first to explore it, but the first recorded expedition was in 1869. It's one of the largest caves in the whole state, and the cave's Cathedral Room is one of the largest cavern openings on the continent. One of the first tourist attractions to open in the Ozarks was what is now known as Marvel Cave.
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