Places kelligann Wants to Go

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

This historic drug store-turned-museum served an important role in the Civil Rights Movement.

Pay your respects at this juke joint founded by a blues legend of the Mississippi Delta.

Pull off Highway 61 in high summer for fried green tomato BLTs, turkey legs, and boiled peanuts.

Catch a live blues set in a former 1930s grocery store on the Mississippi River.

Native builders raised these mounds centuries ago, before local families turned one into a cemetery.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Founded in 1954 by a husband-and-wife duo, this ceramics studio carries on a powerful artistic legacy.

The only cave in Louisiana has played host to a state's-worth of clandestine activities.

A serene but haunting memorial to protective wetland lost, the absence of which directly damaged the Lower 9th Ward following Hurricane Katrina.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

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

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

The highest concentration of petroglyph sites in Gold Butte National Monument, plus an improbable early 20th-century dam.