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Baton Rouge

3 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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Louisiana Old State Capitol from the Repentance Fountain

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Louisiana Old State Capitol

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

30.4466, -91.1890

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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

30.4539, -91.1867

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Mike the Tiger looking all cute and stuff!

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Mike the Tiger

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

30.4145, -91.1783

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The cemetery at the Hansen's Disease Museum

Carville, Louisiana

National Hansen's Disease Museum

A collection that chronicles the history of a leper colony that became a refuge.

30.2172, -91.0958

Added by laleego

16 MILEs FROM Baton Rouge

Nottoway Plantation House

White Castle, Louisiana

Nottoway Plantation House

Despite its troubled legacy, this grand Southern plantation estate still stands a living monument of the South of the past.

30.1826, -91.1704

Added by L Delaney

19 MILEs FROM Baton Rouge

Inside the interferometer

Walker, Louisiana

LIGO Livingston Observatory

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

30.5631, -90.7695

Added by Trevor

23 MILEs FROM Baton Rouge

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