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Louisiana Old State Capitol

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

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Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

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Mike the Tiger

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

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National Hansen's Disease Museum

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

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Nottoway Plantation House

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

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19 MILEs FROM Baton Rouge

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LIGO Livingston Observatory

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

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23 MILEs FROM Baton Rouge

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