Brownsville (Tennessee)

This museum offers a vignette on the Western Tennessee delta region with exhibits on things like cotton, blues artists, turtles and other endemic species, and Tina Turner (grew up in this community of Brownsville).

An abstract metal artwork creation that looks a bit like Watts Towers in LA.

Site of the Civil War Battle of Fort Pillow, where some 300 African American Union soldiers were brutally massacred by Nathan Bedford Forrest's men upon his orders after surrendering.

Boyhood home of the author of the intergenerational African American epic Roots.

Regional museum, military artifacts, mounted animals, etc.

Swamp and marshland area where you can explore walking trails, view wildlife and lily pads, and look at dioramas.

A drive-thru zoo where some 80 species roam about and where ungulates such as baby giraffes will want to eat from your car.