A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.