Mississippi is known as the birthplace of blues and celebrities such as Elvis and Oprah, classic southern mansions and beaconing sandy shores on the Gulf Coast. Jackson holds the state capital building and great state museums. Corinth and Vicksburg offer national military parks with monuments and memorials and civil war interpretive centers.Natchez is a picture perfect antebellum town with historic tours of a wealth of mansions. Gulfport and Biloxi have miles of white sand beaches.