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

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

This clifftop arch is a natural stunner.

Two stone columns flank the grand Venice square, but there were supposed to be three.

This Roman statue is missing a limb from when the Venetians stole it from Constantinople during the Crusades.

In the past, Renaissance sex workers were encouraged to entice customers on this bridge.

This deconsecrated church has seen many uses, from a tobacco storehouse to a cinema.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

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

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

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

This sculpture may be the only known depiction of a man who helped finance the American Revolution and inadvertently created the dollar sign.

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

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

Once the grandest synagogue in medieval Spain, it now stands as a memorial of the 15th-century Jewish exile.

This sweet-toothed bear searching for snacks has been a symbol of Madrid for decades.

A stone slab in Madrid marks the point from which the distances of Spain's national roads are measured.