A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.