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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The largest riverfront opening cave in the Ozarks.

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

An underground river pushes more than 200 million gallons out of this Missouri spring every day.

Away from the crowds of fishing enthusiasts, take a hike deep into the woods and journey into an eerie darkness.

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

Despite what scientists think, the town still says this is an extraterrestrial rock.

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

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

A mysterious and terrifying public art goblin seemingly meant to inspire local legend.

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

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

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

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

The seventh largest spring in the world.

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

A college in rural Kansas founded to prepare the country for an impending World War III.

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