Places goodepeggy Wants to Go

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

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

An oversized metal construction of Billy Tripp's moods going through life.

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

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

The R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

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

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

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

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

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

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

A reclusive Memphis neighborhood is home to decades worth of misunderstood Masonic folk art.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

The final remnant of the Arkansas zinc industry is this historically protected ghost town.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

On the side of Arkansas' Great River Road stand the remains of a forgotten World War II POW Camp.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.