This kitschy tavern is also home to rare early editions of "Treasure Island."

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

The largest cemetery in the American Southeast is a hidden gem near the heart of Atlanta.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

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

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

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

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

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

A faithful dog is forever watching over the family children.

This tiny, triangular block has held the world record since 1964.

An Alabama courtroom where two famous American authors played as children became the setting for a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.