New Years

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

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

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

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

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

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

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

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

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

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

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

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