A shop on Winfield Dunn Parkway in Sevierville, Tennessee, the Smoky Mountain Relic Room (SMRR) occupies the lower level of a building that also houses Smoky Mountain Knife Works. In business for more than four decades, SMRR maintains an expansive 108,000-square-foot showroom where it displays a wide variety of historical artifacts as well as geological specimens such as fossils and crystals.

In addition to selling these items through its brick-and-mortar location downstairs from Knife Works, SMRR maintains a comprehensive ecommerce site. It prides itself on obtaining all of its artifacts and specimens legally from private collections and property, its operations comply fully with all relevant state, federal, and international commerce laws.

SMRR operates under the direction of its owner, Chase Pipes, an experienced hunter of artifacts and natural specimens who also hosts and produces his own online history and archeology program. Titled Chasing History, as well as a podcast titles Chasing History Radio. acting as the educational arm of the SMRR the show sees Mr. Pipes guiding viewers through subjects that range from megalodon shark teeth and dinosaur bones to Identifying Prehistoric Native American sites with Archaeologist all while on site nd in the field while discoveries are being made.