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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Elvis's own personal tropical hideaway.

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.

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

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

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

Designed by Maya Lin, the memorial honors 41 individuals who died fighting for equal rights between 1954 and 1968.

Colloquially known as "the lynching memorial," this is the United States' first memorial to the victims of racial terror at home.

The permanent home of a 1960s traveling museum of tiny historical dioramas.

In 1911 this intersection was called "the heaviest corner in the South," an outlandish claim that only grew wilder over the years.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

A strange history museum, with items accumulated by a pair of globe trotting spies.

A vision of beautiful Hindu architecture in the middle of the American South.

Unruly residents were housed in this one-person cell until the Black Maria arrived.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

The first integrated firehouse in Atlanta houses a museum on the history of desegregation in the city's fire department.