Mississippi Attractions and Oddities

All the oddball Mississippi places in RoadsideAmerica.com Visitor Tips, news, stories and field reports. Closed and extinct attractions may be found in Gone But Not Forgotten

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Belzoni: Catfish Capital, Statue, and Museum
Biloxi: Home of Confederate President Jeff Davis
Biloxi: Hurricane Katrina Memorial
Biloxi: Stuffed Longhorn Steer at Casino Food Court
Bruce: Tire Man
Clarksdale: Devil's Crossroads
Clarksdale: Shack Up Inn
Clarksdale: Theo's Rock 'n' Blues Museum
Cleveland: Dockery Farms - Birthplace of the Blues?
Collins: "Major Dad" Gerald McRaney Street
Collins: Backyard Exotic Animal Orphanage
Columbus: Birthplace of Angsty Playwright Tennessee Williams
Corinth: Oldest Drug Store-Soda Fountain in Mississippi
Edwards: World's Only Cactus Plantation
Egremont: Roadside Dinosaurs
Flora: Mississippi Petrified Forest
Foxworth: Grand Canyon of Mississippi
Greenwood: Robert Johnson Died On This Corner
Greenwood: Sleep in a Cotton Picker's Shack
Gulfport: Katrina Catastrophe Trees
Gulfport: World's Largest Rocking Chair
Holly Springs: Graceland Too
Holly Springs: Yellow Fever Martyrs Church Museum
Horn Lake: Where Elvis Spent His Honeymoon
Jackson: General William T. Sherman necktie
Kosciusko: Birthplace of Oprah Winfrey
Lake View: State Line Big John
Leland: Jim Henson Museum, Birthplace of Kermit the Frog
Lucedale: Palestine Gardens

Lucedale: Presidential Back-Scratching Post
Marks: Gurley's House and Collection
Meridian: Graves of the King and Queen of the Gypsies
Moss Point: Gator Farm
Natchez: Mammy's Cupboard
Onward: Birthplace of the Teddy Bear
Oxford: Faulkner Statue, South's Oldest Department Store
Oxford: World's Largest Cedar Bucket
Pascagoula: Trent Lott's Head - in a Cage
Pass Christian: Japanese Gardens
Pocahontas: Giant Tepee BBQ Restaurant
Port Gibson: Gold Hand Pointing to Heaven
Port Gibson: The Windsor Ruins
Ridgeland: Washington Monument Replica Obelisk
Rodney: Ghost Town of Rodney
Shubuta: Famous Red Water Artesian Well
Terry: Uniroyal gal
Tunica: Tacky Delta Casinos
Tupelo: Birthplace of Elvis
Tupelo: Cars of Elvis and Liberace
Tupelo: Tupelo Hardware: Elvis's First Guitar
Vicksburg: Fake Ironclad on a Hill
Vicksburg: Grocery Store Covered in Folk Art
Vicksburg: Miracle Baby Bullet and Sash of Presidents
Vicksburg: Where Coca-Cola Was First Bottled
Westonia: Apollo 13 Lunar Lander
Wiggins: Dizzy Dean Rest Area
Yazoo City: Witch's Grave

Gone But Not Forgotten

Closed and extinct places to remember, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...

Biloxi: Magic Golf - Gone
Biloxi: Moran Art Studio - Skeletons under the Floor
Gulfport: S.S. Hurricane Camille - Gone
Hattiesburg: Elvis is Alive! Museum - Closed

Hattiesburg: Giant Rocking Chair - Gone
Petal: Ruins of International Checker Hall of Fame

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February 6, 2012

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Dizzy Dean Rest Area and Grave, Wiggins
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Dockery Farms - Birthplace of the Blues?, Cleveland
Petrified Forest - Rock Wood, Flora
Ghost Town of Rodney, Rodney

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