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

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

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

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

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

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.

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

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

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.

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

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

Whimsical bronze sculptures of smiling coins and houses await visitors to this park.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

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

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

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

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.