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.

The Kingdom of Skullbonia
Downtown Skullbone consists primarily of the Hampton General Store ... and that's about it.

West Tennessee’s tiny community of Skullbone certainly appreciates a good joke, and visitors can’t help but smile at a town that knows how to laugh at itself.

The tiny Gibson County crossroads, in the rolling countryside between Bradford and Trezevant, got its unique name from hosting bare-knuckle boxing matches in the early 1900s, with competitors trying to “bash each other’s skull in.”

Today, life has lightened up considerably. Downtown Skullbone consists of one general store/post office/city hall, owned and operated by Landon and Ruby Hampton for 40 years. Outside, a large map charts the boundaries of the mythical “Kingdom of Skullbonia,” a bewildering but official designation made in 1953 by then Gov. Gordon Browning.

Just across the road, a multidirectional sign boasts of Skullbone’s proximity to points around the globe: Capetown, 11,942 miles; Singapore, 9,981; Moscow, 6,094; and Goose Foot, 2.