Attractions

Tune in to see actor Jeff Daniels as a Buckless Yooper. In addition, learn about a professional baseball team’s mascot called Mr. Celery, and the Museum of Funeral Customs that has one focus — death.

Business

Ever drink an okra martini or lather up with a luxury soap named after the lowly boll weevil? Need live crickets – fast? Click here to find out more about these and other businesses that offer unusual products and services!

Dining

Pass the napkins, please. You can get a fried double bologna burger, or try a pig sandwich, green chili slopper or coffee potato ice cream. Wash everything down with a white birch beer from the Hall of Foam.

Oddities

Time out: A Division I college football game actually had a final score of 222-0. Also, somebody had to invent Mother’s Day, and a city called Skullbone got its name from hosting bare-knuckle boxing matches.

Festivals

What’s that smell? Be sure to attend a celebration that features outhouse races, then bring a breath mint to the annual Garlic Festival. In addition, applaud the lucky and deserving winner of the Slug Queen Pageant.

Barq's Bite
Barq’s root beer was created in Biloxi, Miss., and remains a top beverage of choice on the coast.

Sonny Barq’s grandfather brought a top-secret formula with him when he immigrated to Biloxi, Miss., in the late 1800s.

It was the formula for Barq’s Root Beer, a drink that "caught the imagination of the general public" in the early 1900s, says Edward "Sonny" Barq IV, grandson of company founder Edward Barq Sr.

"At one time, Barq’s root beer was created and bottled right here in Biloxi," Sonny Barq says.

The original factory, known as the Biloxi Artesian Company, was built in 1898 and still is standing on Keller Avenue. "Plans are under way to preserve the building and make it a museum," Barq says.

The business remained in the family until 1976, when it was sold to entrepreneurs. Coca-Cola bought the company in 1995 and now distributes the drink worldwide.