This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

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

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

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

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

A little piece of Paris in the sultry south of the U.S.

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

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

The Ozarks' strangest dwelling.

Over a dozen Native American earth mounds dating back over 2,000 years dot this Tennessee archaeological park.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

Giant granite rocks standing end-to-end like a train of circus elephants.

In the St. Francois Mountains in the Ozarks at 1,772 feet above sea level, Taum Sauk Mountain is the highest (and possibly oldest) peak in Missouri.

Once an ambitious nature spa, these forest ruins now provide a serene monument to failure.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

Life-size figures portray depot attendants, train crew, and passengers frozen in time at the oldest railroad station in Arkansas.

The scant remains of an expansive indigenous civilization can be seen at this Arkansas state park.

This historic bridge has weathered fires and floods and still stands, now abandoned, where it has stood since 1874.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

These massive mitts are made of 30 tons of devotional bronze.