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

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

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

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

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

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

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