Everything OddWay knows about. Narrow it down by what you're after, or where you're going.
Stories a place tells about itself, passed down and still repeated.
Yazoo City, MS
Glenwood Cemetery contains the grave associated with the "Witch of Yazoo" legend, a local tale later popularized in Willie Morris's writing. The grave is real; the witch story is folklore, and visitors should treat the cemetery respectfully.
Meridian, MS
A historic cemetery best known to odd-history travelers for the ornate grave of Kelly Mitchell, often called the "Gypsy Queen." The site has accumulated legends and offerings over time; visit as a cemetery and do not disturb memorial items or graves.
Chunky, MS
A historic bridge associated with the legend of an innkeeper-turned-outlaw named Stuckey and later ghost stories. The folklore is not the same thing as documented history; view the bridge only from lawful public access and do not enter unsafe or posted areas.
Clarksdale, MS
The famous Highway 61/49 crossroads is associated in popular culture with the legend that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for musical ability. The crossroads is real; the supernatural bargain is folklore, and the stop should be presented that way.
Houston, MS
A Natchez Trace stop tied to an old regional legend that witches once gathered here to dance, leaving places where grass would not grow. The story is folklore rather than documented fact, but the named NPS site is real and routable.
Hotels, theatres, prisons and back roads with a reputation.
Vicksburg, MS
A layered historic house assembled in sections dating from the late 1700s through the antebellum era and used during the Civil War. The operator openly offers history tours, haunted tours and paranormal investigations, making the site's paranormal identity part of its current public use rather than an unsupported rumor. Coordinate source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mcraven-tour-home
Sighting sites, crash lore and the towns that kept the file open.
Pascagoula, MS
A city-installed marker at Lighthouse Park commemorating the 1973 account in which Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker said they were abducted by strange beings while fishing nearby. The marker documents the cultural history of the claim without asserting that the reported encounter occurred as described.
Real events too strange to have made the textbook.
Valley Park, MS
A Coles Creek-era mound complex east of Valley Park where three mounds once framed a plaza along Jeff Davis Bayou. The site is private property; use the Mississippi Mound Trail marker/public roadway and do not enter the archaeological site.
Anguilla, MS
A surviving rectangular platform mound about 20 feet high, built and used over centuries before European settlement. It is on private property and should be observed only from the public viewing route identified by the Mississippi Mound Trail.
Arcola, MS
Only part of a once larger six-mound Mississippian complex survives here, including a platform mound rising more than 30 feet. The remaining earthworks are private, so this is a lawful roadside/viewing stop rather than a walk-on site.
Indianola, MS
A museum built around B.B. King's life while also interpreting Delta labor, migration, segregation and the regional culture that shaped the blues. King's grave is on the grounds, making the site both museum and memorial.
Batesville, MS
A rare surviving Woodland-period mound group incorporated into Batesville's public mound trail area. Several original mounds were destroyed, but the surviving earthworks and interpretive setting make this one of the easier archaeological stops to experience directly.
Port Gibson, MS
A prehistoric mound complex near Bayou Pierre where one large platform mound remains clearly visible from Old Mill Road. The property is private, so stay on the public road and use the trail marker as the stop.
Small, specific collections run by people who care far too much.
Vicksburg, MS
A museum in the building where Joseph Biedenharn first bottled Coca-Cola on a large commercial basis in 1894. Vintage advertising, bottling equipment and soda-fountain material make it a compact example of American commercial odd-history.
Leland, MS
A small museum celebrating Jim Henson's Delta childhood and the local landscape that helped inspire Kermit the Frog. Displays include Muppets-related material and the stop sits beside Deer Creek in Henson's hometown.
Vicksburg, MS
A free U.S. Army Corps of Engineers museum about the Mississippi River, flood control and river life, including an outdoor scale river model and the retired Motor Vessel Mississippi IV. The combination of engineering history, flood disasters and a walk-through workboat gives it strong OddWay value. Coordinate source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lower-mississippi-river-museum
Biloxi, MS
A museum covering more than three centuries of Gulf Coast shipbuilding, seafood work, storms and maritime culture. It also houses the Hurricane Camille Memorial, linking everyday coastal industry with one of the region's most destructive disasters.
Biloxi, MS
A Frank Gehry-designed museum campus centered on the wildly experimental ceramic work of Biloxi's self-described "Mad Potter," George Ohr. The eccentric pottery and unusual architecture make the museum a natural OddWay stop even without paranormal or roadside folklore.
Vicksburg, MS
An 1858-60 courthouse turned local-history museum, filled with Civil War artifacts, furniture, portraits, tools and other objects tied to Vicksburg's past. The building itself survived the siege and remains one of the city's most recognizable historic structures. Coordinate source: National Register documentation
Giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.
Biloxi, MS
An 1848 cast-iron lighthouse unusually positioned in the median of U.S. 90 and long used as a symbol of Gulf Coast hurricane survival. Tours operate on a limited schedule and, as of 2026, access to the upper deck is temporarily restricted for repairs.
Ocean Springs, MS
A private 1906-07 residence whose layered porches, railings and nautical detailing earned it the nickname "Steamboat House." It remains a private home, so OddWay users should view it only from the public street without entering the property.
Meridian, MS
A rare 1895 Dentzel menagerie carousel housed in its historic carousel building and long operated as a public attraction in Highland Park. As of September 2026 Visit Meridian lists the carousel as temporarily closed for renovations, so keep it in the database as `limited` until reopening is confirmed.
Hattiesburg, MS
A miniature outdoor museum hidden in a downtown alley, filled with rotating tiny exhibits, miniature scenes and public art. The alley is designed to be discovered on foot and is accessible without entering a conventional museum building.
Natchez, MS
The largest octagonal house in the United States, topped by an onion-shaped dome and famously left unfinished when construction stopped during the Civil War. Visitors can tour the finished lower level and the raw upper stories, where building materials and structural framing remain exposed. Secondary source: https://visitmississippi.org/things-to-do/architecture/longwood/
Natchez, MS
A restaurant built in the form of a giant skirted woman, one of Mississippi's most recognizable pieces of vernacular roadside architecture. The imagery and name reflect a racist "mammy" stereotype from the Jim Crow era, so the stop is best presented with that historical context rather than as neutral kitsch.
