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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

A remarkably opulent mansion with a tragic history.

Homestead Cemetery hold the remains of the United States' first known professional tattoo artists.

The first "Hut" was actually a small brick building.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

Marking the spot where a conquistador gave up his search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold.

See the motorcycles that launched the stuntman to fame and the gear that saved his life.

The fastest mail service in the west is tracked and memorialized along this 1,400 mile trail.

The house where the famed outlaw was shot by a dirty coward is now a museum to the criminal's legacy.

The history of the treatment of mental illness, illustrated in all its gory detail, and housed in an asylum.