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

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

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

Beer lover's can-covered house.

Local arts organization founded in a former church.

This historical air terminal in Houston is slowly becoming an aviation museum dedicated to the city's aeronautical history.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

One man's homage to the orange as realized through a long-term folk art labor of love.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

Scale replica of China's ancient terracotta tomb warriors and Forbidden City are the side project of an eccentric millionaire.

Some islands... they come, they go, especially on Lake Travis.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

A grove of colossal man-made flowers built to collect the sun's rays.

Life's work of sculptor Elisabet Ney remains preserved in her last studio.