It may look like no more than a full-scale model, but every part of this full Space Shuttle stack had a working role in aviation history.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

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

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

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

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

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

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

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

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

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

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

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

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.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

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

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

Thousands of small machines line the shelves of this personal collection which definitely delivers on its name.

This roadside park filled with unusual statues is on the grounds of an abandoned railway station.

This 41,000-acre wetland complex is the largest marsh in the interior of the United States.