Places mmhales Wants to Go

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

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

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

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

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

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

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

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

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

This tomb was fashioned with a sliding window for a grieving mother who struggled with her daughter's death.

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

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

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.

This site is dedicated to a candidate for sainthood and contains personal items including his cilice and lead coffin.

This non-profit restaurant offers job training and skills to members of the Central City community.

One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.