A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

Constructed from bricks salvaged from a former dormitory destroyed in a fire.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

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

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 highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

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

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

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

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

This historic general store still operates much as it did in the late 1800s.

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

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

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

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

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

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.