All you ever needed or wanted to know about America's favorite whiskey, but not a drop to drink.

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

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

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

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

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

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

A failed utopian experiment for British expats in the American South is now a Victorian village frozen in time.

This former maximum-security prison is creepy, sobering, and supposedly haunted.