Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

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

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

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 unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

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

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

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

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

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