Historic sites

Graceland, Memphis

United States of America Tennessee Memphis

Graceland, Memphis
Photo: Fallaner, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The home of Elvis Presley, where he lived from 1957 until his death in 1977, preserved with its Jungle Room, his cars, planes, costumes and gold records, and his grave in the Meditation Garden.


Memphis is a music city: hear blues on Beale Street, and visit Sun Studio, where Elvis first recorded, and the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel.

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