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Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Louisiana Old State Capitol

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

Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Bayou St. John Confederate Submarine

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

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.

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National Hansen's Disease Museum

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

16 miles from Baton Rouge

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.

19 miles from Baton Rouge

Walker, Louisiana

LIGO Livingston Observatory

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

23 miles from Baton Rouge

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Louisiana Russian Cake

Recycling comes to dessert, with delicious outcomes.

Chitlins

These entrails identified safe venues for African-American performers during the Jim Crow era.

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