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

A 1980s tour bus that traveled millions of miles to facilitate a superlatively rigorous performing career.

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.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

The last intact steam engine factory in the United States.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

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

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

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

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

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

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