All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

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 taste of Middle Earth, in the middle of the Bayou City.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

This seaworthy collection was sparked by one man's passion for sailing.

A Texas-sized particle collider that was abandoned due to its Texas-sized budget.

The "world’s largest honky-tonk" also has its own indoor rodeo arena.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.

A registered historic landmark shrouded in unsettling local legends.

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

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

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.