People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

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

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

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

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

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

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.

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

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

Historical marker at the spot where Bonnie and Clyde were killed.

A replica of a Dutch windmill in honor of those who settled in the region from the Netherlands.

Pay homage to the "Top Woman Athlete of the Twentieth Century."

A tribute to one of the most memorable characters from the Transformers movie series.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Twenty churches beautifully painted by 19th-century Czech and German immigrants in Texas.

A fruit-loving town welcomes visitors with a giant melon set against the sky.

The saga of the massive nut begins and ends in Texas.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Legend says the horned lizard spent 31 years sealed in a time capsule before he was discovered alive.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.