Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Mississippi

While in Mississippi, you might enjoy a visit to:

Larger than life, gilded in gold, atop the towering steeple of a Presbyterian church.
~28 miles from Vicksburg.

Towering columns nearly lost in the woods, all that remain of the largest antebellum plantation house in Mississippi.
~32 miles from Vicksburg.

The only petrified forest outside the east of the Mississippi, plus black light rocks. Open as an attraction since 1963. Petrified wood is Mississippi's official state rock.
~34 miles from Vicksburg.

Rodney was cursed by a fickle Mississippi River, a fire, and a railroad that went somewhere else.
~39 miles from Vicksburg.

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