This beacon for pre-radar pilots once guided Charles Lindbergh to a safe touchdown in Tulsa.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

A tiny waterway named after a ghost story.