A 22-foot stainless steel quilting needle pays tribute to a local connection to fiber arts.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

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

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

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.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.