Things to do across Mississippi

A beachfront casino resort on the Mississippi Gulf Coast with a hotel, golf course, and dozens of dining options.

Follow B.B. King's life from Delta sharecropper to blues icon in a museum built around the brick cotton gin where he once worked.

Stay, dine and play at a waterfront casino resort on the Biloxi beachfront, the tallest building in Mississippi.

Tour Jefferson Davis's restored 1852 beachfront home, his presidential library and a Confederate cemetery on Gulf Coast grounds.

See an 1848 cast-iron lighthouse standing in the median of Beach Boulevard, with guided tours offered each morning.

Explore blues history in a former Clarksdale train depot, including the cabin where Muddy Waters lived in his youth.

See the two-room house where Elvis Presley was born, plus his childhood church, a museum and a chapel.

Explore interactive exhibits on GRAMMY history, recording technology and Mississippi's musicians in the heart of the Delta.

Hike bayou trails, fish from the pier and camp at Davis Bayou, the mainland gateway to Mississippi's barrier islands.

Take a guided tour of an unfinished octagonal mansion crowned by an onion dome, left incomplete when the Civil War began.

See dolphins, otters, alligators, sharks and rays in indoor and outdoor habitats, and walk through an underwater tunnel.

Walk eight galleries on Mississippi's civil rights struggle, gathered around a light sculpture that plays freedom songs.

Drive, bike or hike a 444-mile scenic parkway through Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee along a historic travel route.

View George Ohr's pottery and changing art exhibitions on a Frank Gehry-designed campus set among live oaks.

Tour William Faulkner's 1844 home in Oxford and walk the wooded grounds where he lived and wrote for over 30 years.

Drive a 16-mile tour road past Civil War monuments, trenches and cannons, and see the ironclad gunboat USS Cairo.

Walk an accessible trail around 23 towering Corinthian columns, the remains of a plantation mansion that burned in 1890.