The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

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

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

A pink cottage covered in hearts served as a haven and a resting place for LGBTQ activists.

"If she'd leave us alone, we would have a happy home, sent from down below."

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The greatest collection of New Orleans masking and processional traditions covering everything from Baby Dolls to Skull and Bone gangs.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

An abandoned convention space that has been left to the homeless and the radical.

A middle school sports field that many believe was the true location of the first successful powered flight - and not by the Wright Brothers.