Here are the best places to pay tribute to the Titanic

You'll find Titanic-themed attractions that delve into what life was like on the luxury liner (and what it was like to be aboard the sinking ship) all across the country. There's definitely something about the famous ship that appeals to a lot of people, and while a lot of these attractions are similar, they're all pretty fun to tour. Vegas has one inside the Luxor Hotel that contains loads of recovered artifacts from the ship, 2.5 miles below the ocean. See Titanic's whistles, a piece of the hull, an uncorked bottle of champagne, luggage, floor tiles, and tons more. They also have full-scale recreations of the famous Grand Staircase and the Promenade Deck (which is in a room cooled to the temperature outside on the fateful night that the ship sank, for added effect), along with first, second, and third-class rooms.

Located in a replica of the Titanic hitting an iceberg (and the sister museum of the one in Pigeon Forge), the Titanic Museum in Branson is chock-full of things to see and learn. The experience takes you from the Titanic's conception and construction and introduces you to some of the various passengers and crew members. You can see Madeleine Astor's lifejacket that she wore as her lifeboat rowed to safety, and other artifacts that really make the experience personal.

This is the best place to raise a pint to those who were on the ship! It was opened before the movie came out (FYI) and they've got karaoke, and live music on the weekends, plus a restaurant that serves up all kinds of yummy seafood specialties, all in a setting that's meant to be reminiscent of the boiler room of an old-school luxury cruise liner. And, of course, there's the beer. Their Triple Screw Light Ale, Captain Smith's Rye Ale, and Boiler Room Nut Brown Ale are all award winners, but you can't go wrong with the White Star IPA either!

This Canadian museum has an entire permanent exhibition of some truly sobering Titanic artifacts. These include a pair of baby shoes, which, although they're still known as the "Unknown Child's Shoes", were recently tested and determined to be from 19-month-old Sidney Goodwin, who was en route from England to Niagara Falls with his family when the disaster occurred. They've also got a mortuary bag, which is made all the more chilling by the fact that they've also ID'ed the person whose body was transported in it-- he was a cabin steward named Edmund Stone. Other artifacts include "wreckwood" souvenirs, which are objects carved from wood from the Titanic by mariners involved in the recovery process, the wireless log from on land that contains a minute-by-minute description of the sinking, a model of one of the lifeboats, and tons more.