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Mississippi Oddities

Unusual destinations, curious landmarks, and worthwhile detours across Mississippi.

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Leland, Mississippi

A tiny Delta museum celebrates the childhood landscape that inspired Kermit the Frog.

Jackson, Mississippi

A 200-acre concrete landscape once simulated floods across nearly half the continental United States.

Natchez, Mississippi

America’s largest octagonal house remains dramatically unfinished above its furnished first floor.

Biloxi, Mississippi

A cast-iron lighthouse stands improbably in the median of a busy coastal highway.

Port Gibson, Mississippi

A forest of towering columns marks the mansion that vanished in an 1890 fire.

Vicksburg, Mississippi

A Civil War ironclad raised from river mud stands reconstructed beside its recovered artifacts.

Flora, Mississippi

A woodland trail winds among ancient logs transformed into stone millions of years ago.

Meridian, Mississippi

Hand-carved animals from a 1904 world’s fair circle beneath a jewel-like pavilion.

Foxworth, Mississippi

Mississippi’s Little Grand Canyon reveals vivid cliffs carved by constant erosion.

Lorman, Mississippi

A vanished river port survives as scattered ruins beside roads the Mississippi left behind.