Gatlinburg, TN -- "The Dukes of Hazzard" might have celebrated rural America, but now it's gone international.

That's according to Ben Jones, who played "Cooter" on the show and currently runs a "Hazzard-"themed cabaret in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.

Jones says Cooter's Place is constantly filled with people from all over the world coming in to get a glimpse of Hazzard county and meet a piece of its history.

He says the main appeal to foreign folks is that the show celebrates "the old American spaghetti western spirit" -- only it substitutes muscle cars for horses.

Jones will open a new Cooter's Place location on Saturday (May 4) in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and hopes to get visitors from another nearby American icon -- Dollywood.

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