After the musical legend's death, his memorial was mysteriously graffitied in gold.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A Building for Your (Former) Funerary Needs.

In the mid-20th century, a tamale-slinging juke joint attracted a diverse clientele in the Mississippi Delta.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

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

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

The grandiose interior of this bar speaks to its past as home to famous jewelers and railway offices.

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

The concrete shell of an industry giant remains as a playground for graffiti artists, auto scrappers, and paintball warriors.

Opulent downtown movie theater now houses cars as an indoor parking garage.

The only surviving prototype for Buckminster Fuller's house of the future.

Astounding collection of coin-operated games and automata.

Largest magic museum in the United States with more than half a million pieces of memorabilia.

A wacky two-story folk-art assemblage of carved and found objects, with lights, motion, and sound now in need of financial support.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.