Places adamU Wants to Go

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

An ode to "The Queen of Appalachia."

This church houses the “incorrupt” body of its founding Bishop.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

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

This defunct, fortress-like prison has been the setting for several movies.

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

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.

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

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

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

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

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

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

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

This coastal port saw one of the most significant battles of the Civil War.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.

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