These boots are made for selfies.

A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the "Golden Age" of the American automobile.

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

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

This university research project is the U.S. government's weed dealer.

This two-room shotgun shack in Tupelo is the birthplace of a King.

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

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

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

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

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

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

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

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

This bar named after the world's first mixed cocktail was home to one of New Orleans' most notorious politicians.

By day this New Orleans square is for pedestrians, but by night it is a kingdom of kittens.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."