A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

What better place to take a seat?

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

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

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

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

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

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

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

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

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

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

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Even with its slightly risible name this colossal cross is still able to inspire awe.

A towering Art Deco movie palace made to look like a Mayan temple.