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

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

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

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

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

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This soda factory is one of the last in America to use real cane sugar despite the protestations of Dr Pepper.

Tracks near this Texas nature site were once thought to support the Creationist belief that man and dino coexisted.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.

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

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

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

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

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

The remains of the first public diamond mine in Arkansas.