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

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

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

Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery.

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

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

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

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

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A museum in Mississippi celebrates the history of Coca-Cola and the man who brought it to the masses.

Built in 1797, this is Mississippi’s most haunted house.

Since 1939, this no-frills spot has been turning out perfectly seasoned renditions of a Delta staple.

Pull off Highway 61 in high summer for fried green tomato BLTs, turkey legs, and boiled peanuts.