After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

One man built this shrine in the 1970s to pay tribute to a miracle he had witnessed.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

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

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

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.