Ethereal alien hums and haunting whale songs emitting from...a giant sheet of vibrating metal?

One of the last Depression-era bandshells still standing was the site of Elvis Presley’s first live concert.

Alongside this Memphis trail are several sculptures that show trail-goers how to relax.

A legendary music collector donated his entire collection to the entire city of Memphis.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

Mass graves and Victorian monuments mark the history of Memphis in this 19th century cemetery.

The "Jade Museum" is full of thousands of intricately carved works of art made from various precious stones.

This Memphis recording studio launched the careers of Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Elvis Presley.

The juke joint where legendary soul artists ate, drank, and made merry.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Every day a troupe of pampered water fowl walk the red carpet to their favorite fountain.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

The world's largest collection of porcelain "veilleuses-theiere," or night light teapots, includes four that belonged to Napoleon.

World's largest magnetic research facility.

The Tallahassee Airport serves over half a million passengers a year and is home to some permanent residents too.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

One of the world’s largest and deepest freshwater springs, where mastodons once roamed.

Off of the Crawfordville Highway in Florida, nature is taking back this decrepit row of Ford trucks.

This phone booth-sized municipal building has been a piece of police property for more than half a century.

Tucked away in the forests of North Florida resides a 19th-century lighthouse.

Of course the guy with the first patent for an ice machine lived in Florida.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Interact with jury-selected works of art at this Gulf Coast underwater museum.