New Orleans, Louisiana
Mardi Gras World
This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
This float factory takes the mask off of Mardi Gras and lets visitors see where the magic happens.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.
DeQuincy, Louisiana
Thousands of railroad artifacts are housed in one of the last remaining mission revival style train depots in the South.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of infamous outlaw Clyde and Marvin Barrow.
Dallas, Texas
The final resting place of an outlaw, whose legend grew after death.
Kilgore, Texas
At this rural museum, visitors can experience "Boomtown U.S.A.," a lifelike re-creation of an oil boomtown in the 1930s.
Waco, Texas
Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.
Mineral Wells, Texas
This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.
Waxahachie, Texas
A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.
Fort Worth, Texas
Of course the grave of JFK's assassin is surrounded by conspiracy theories.
Grapevine, Texas
A few times a day, you can see an animatronic cowboy shoot-out.
Arlington, Texas
Fears of Satanic worshippers swirl around five Celtic-inspired megaliths.
Arlington, Texas
Fans are known to leave tributes to these two brothers, both heavy-metal legends.
Dallas, Texas
This downtown Dallas art installation is always on the lookout.
Marble Falls Township, Arkansas
A hillbilly theme park that proved so unpopular the land wouldn't even sell on eBay after it closed.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This monumental Jesus is often referred to as "Our Milk Carton With Arms."
Pioneer, Louisiana
This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.
Paris, Arkansas
A large stone map of Arkansas awaits visitors to its highest point.
Hot Springs, Arkansas
This historic hotel on Bathhouse Row in Hot Springs National Park has a storied history of gangsters and baseball greats.
Natchitoches, Louisiana
A remarkably futuristic building sits in the oldest town in Louisiana.
Minden, Louisiana
A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.
Shreveport, Louisiana
Learn about the history of Shreveport in one of the city’s oldest surviving buildings.
Shreveport, Louisiana
Explore 4,000 years of European and American art history in the heart of northwest Louisiana.