A virtually untouched "home on the hill" for the flora and fauna of Rhode Island.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

The oldest still-operating tavern in the United States was once owned by a pirate.

Unicorns, elephants, and bears, oh my!

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

A 19th century library favored by Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, known by locals as "the Ath."

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

Constructed from bricks salvaged from a former dormitory destroyed in a fire.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

This house designed by Frank Lloyd and Louis Sullivan was destroyed twice and reconstructed to near original condition.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

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

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

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

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

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

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

A cheeky alleyway window hosts tiny rotating exhibits with outsized charm.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.