Mississippi Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Mississippi. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Biloxi
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Aberdeen: Lady Buried in Rocking Chair - Aberdeen: Lady Whose Dress Caught Fire
- Baxterville: Atomic Bombs Exploded Here
- Bay St. Louis: The Angel Tree
- Belzoni: EZ Access Swamp Stump
- Bentonia: Oldest Surviving Juke Joint
- Biloxi: 32-Foot-Tall Shark Head Entrance
- Biloxi: Big Walk-In Gator Mouth
- Biloxi: Coastal Mississippi Mardi Gras Museum
- Biloxi: Fred Haise: Apollo 13 Astronaut
- Biloxi: Grave of the Hermit of Deer Island
- Biloxi: Home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis
- Biloxi: Hurricane Katrina Memorial
- Biloxi: Jefferson Davis: Diversity Dad
- Biloxi: Replica U-Boat, Golden Fisherman
- Biloxi: Stuffed Longhorn Steer at Casino Food Court
- Brookhaven: Coffee Pot Topped Building
- Bruce: Tire Man
- Charleston: Champion Pig House and Statue
- Chunky: Stuckey Bridge: Dalton Gang Ghost
- Clarksdale: Devil's Crossroads
- Clarksdale: Muddy Waters Sharecropper Shack
- Clarksdale: Shack Up Inn
- Cleveland: Dockery Farms - Birthplace of the Blues?
- Cleveland: The Fighting Okra
- Collins: "Major Dad" Gerald McRaney Street
- Columbus: Birthplace of Angsty Playwright Tennessee Williams
- Corinth: Martyred Presidents: Pocket Knife Tribute
- Corinth: Oldest Drug Store-Soda Fountain in Mississippi
- Corinth: Sin Alco: "You'll Like It"
- Duck Hill: Chief Duck Statue
- Fayette: Folk Art Frog Farm
- Flora: Mississippi Petrified Forest
- Florence: Catfish House Giant Cross
- Foxworth: Grand Canyon of Mississippi
- Foxworth: Grave of World's Oldest Man and "Last Surviving American Slave"
- Fulton: Giant Roadrunner
- Fulton: Tom Otterness Play Park
- Gautier: Nature's Playground, Traffic Circle Art
- Glendora: Emmett Till Historic Intrepid Center
- Greenville: Riverboat Welcome Center
- Greenwood: Robert Johnson Died On This Corner
- Greenwood: Robert Johnson's Grave
- Greenwood: Sleep in a Cotton Picker's Shack
- Greenwood: Tallahatchie Bridge
- Gulfport: 35-Foot-High Rocking Chair
- Gulfport: Katrina Catastrophe Trees
- Gulfport: Mississippi Aviation Heritage Museum
- Hattiesburg: 9-11 Memorial Holes In Towers
- Hattiesburg: Brass Footprints of Wes Fairley
- Hattiesburg: Last Bare-Knuckle Prize Fight
- Hattiesburg: Railroad Spike Man
- Hattiesburg: The Jook
- Hattiesburg: Tiniest Museum in Mississippi
- Holly Springs: Yellow Fever House
- Holly Springs: Yellow Fever Martyrs Church Museum
- Horn Lake: Where Elvis Spent His Honeymoon
- Hot Coffee: Town Named Hot Coffee
- Indianola: BB King Museum
- Iuka: World's Largest Apron Museum
- Jackson: Abandoned World's Largest Mississippi River Model
- Jackson: Medgar Evers Murder House
- Jackson: Two-Headed Snake
- Jackson: War Memorial and Old Capitol Building
- Kosciusko: Birthplace of Oprah Winfrey
- Lake View: State Line Big John
- Leland: Jim Henson Museum: Birthplace of Kermit the Frog
- Long Beach: Friendship Oak - Older than America
- Lorman: Ghost Town of Rodney
- Lucedale: Pair of Army Tanks
- Lucedale: Palestine Gardens
- Lucedale: Presidential Back-Scratching Post
- Lyon: SpongeBob Sign
- Magee: Mississippi State Sanatorium Museum
- Magnolia: Lynyrd Skynyrd Crash Site Monument
- Marks: Gurley's House and Collection
- Mendenhall: Mississippi's Tallest Totem Pole
- Meridian: Graves of the King and Queen of the Gypsies
- Meridian: Jimmie Rodgers Memorial
- Minter City: Cotton Boll Water Tower
- Moss Point: Gulf Coast Gator Ranch
- Natchez: Grave of Tripod the Cat
- Natchez: Grave with a Staircase
- Natchez: Mammy's Cupboard
- Nesbit: Snowball Throwing Polar Bears
- Ocean Springs: Crooked Feather, 30-Foot-Tall Indian Head
- Ocean Springs: G.I. Museum
- Ocean Springs: The Shed BBQ
- Onward: Birthplace of the Teddy Bear
- Oxford: Faulkner Statue, South's Oldest Department Store
- Oxford: William Faulkner's Grave
- Pascagoula: Jimmy Buffett Bridge
- Pascagoula: UFO Abduction Site
- Pearlington: Giant Rocket from Apollo 19
- Pearlington: Lunar Lander
- Pearlington: Moon Rock, Apollo 13 Spacesuit
- Philadelphia: 1927 Deputy Ambushed
- Philadelphia: Murder Site of Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner
- Picayune: 30,000 Teddy Bears
- Pocahontas: Big Rooster
- Pontotoc: Tire Giant
- Port Gibson: Gold Finger Points To Heaven
- Port Gibson: Moonshine Submarine
- Port Gibson: The Windsor Ruins
- Ridgeland: Washington Monument Cell Phone Tower
- Robinsonville: Hollywood Casino Movie Memorabilia
- Rolling Fork: Chainsaw Teddy Roosevelt Bears
- Rolling Fork: Replica of Muddy Waters' Childhood Shack
- Ruleville: Hot and Cold Water Towers
- Saucier: Abandoned WWII POW Camp
- Seminary: Big Watermelon
- Shubuta: Famous Red Water Artesian Well
- Tupelo: Birthplace of Elvis
- Tupelo: Cheeseburger Booth of Elvis
- Tupelo: Elvis Murals
- Tupelo: Neon: First TVA City Sign
- Tupelo: Touch the Hand of Elvis
- Tupelo: Tupelo Buffalo Park
- Tupelo: Where Elvis Got His First Guitar
- Vardaman: Sweet Potato Capital Of The World
- Vicksburg: Abe and Jeff: Presidents and Equals
- Vicksburg: Cannonball Lodged in Interior Wall
- Vicksburg: Fake Ironclad on a Hill
- Vicksburg: Folk Art Grocery Store Ruins
- Vicksburg: Grave of the Confederate Camel
- Vicksburg: Miracle Baby Bullet and Sash of Presidents
- Vicksburg: Piano Gravestone
- Vicksburg: USS Cairo Sunken Ironclad
- Vicksburg: Vicksburg National Military Park
- Vicksburg: Where Coca-Cola Was First Bottled
- Water Valley: Casey Jones Bell of Doom
- Waveland: Ground Zero Hurricane Museum
- West Point: Howlin' Wolf Memorial
- Wiggins: Dizzy Dean Rest Area
- Yazoo City: Witch's Grave
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Batesville: Tallahatchie Bridge #2
- Bay St. Louis: Hurricane Katrina High Water Marker
- Belzoni: Catfish Capital, Statue, and Museum
- Biloxi: Magic Golf
- Biloxi: Moran Art Studio - Skeletons under the Floor
- Clarksdale: Theo's Rock 'n' Blues Museum
- Collins: Backyard Exotic Animal Orphanage
- Edwards: World's Only Cactus Plantation
- Egremont: Roadside Dinosaurs
- Flora: Giant Tepee BBQ Restaurant
- Gulfport: S.S. Hurricane Camille
- Gulfport: Stump Head of Sad Jesus
- Hattiesburg: Elvis is Alive! Museum
- Hattiesburg: Giant Rocking Chair
- Holly Springs: Graceland Too
- Jackson: 50 Million Pennies in Clear Outdoor Box (Gone)
- Nesbit: Lewis Ranch - Jerry Lee Lewis
- Oxford: World's Largest Cedar Bucket
- Pascagoula: Trent Lott's Head - in a Cage
- Pass Christian: Japanese Gardens
- Petal: Ruins of International Checker Hall of Fame
- Tupelo: Cars of Elvis and Liberace
