Places Tharmph Wants to Go

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

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

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

The future civil rights leader grew up in this Alabama farmhouse.

This 36-foot-tall bronze Lady Liberty holds a real flaming torch.

Monument to the cotton-destroying boll weevil.

Joe Minter is only doing the work of God in his yard, he says.

The country music legend's grave is surrounded by Astroturf because fans kept plucking out the grass.

Cadillac where country's first big star was found dead.

You'll need cowboy boots to trek to this old-fashioned saloon nestled in a giant natural cave.

A wealth of local folk art, antiques, and curios, without ever leaving your car.

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

Contrary to popular belief, this memorial does not actually claim to mark the bluesman's grave.

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

Though Johnson is not actually buried here, an Atlanta-based band sponsored a headstone for him.

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.

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

After decades of research and rumors, Little Zion Church was proven to be his final resting place.

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

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

Boise State's stadium was the first non-green football field in the world.

Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.

Despite his legacy of work in Spain, Cuba, and Florida, the larger-than-life writer's grave is a simple affair tucked in an Idaho cemetery.