The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

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

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

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

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

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

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

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

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

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

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.

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