Southaven is a suburb, not a sightseeing destination, but a handful of places give it some character of its own. The Snowden Grove area on the west side of town is where most of the civic energy lives — parks, ball fields, the city's main event venue, and a pair of outlet shopping centres that pull traffic in from across the Mid-South.
The real attractions are over the Tennessee line in Memphis: Graceland is barely twenty minutes north, Beale Street and the Civil Rights Museum are half an hour. Use Southaven for cheaper rooms and quicker drives, and treat its own POIs as filler between bigger plans.