The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

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

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

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

A free museum that memorializes the deadliest river flood in American history, and the civil engineering efforts to tame the Mississippi River.

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

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

This house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan was destroyed twice and reconstructed to near original condition.