New Orleans, Louisiana
Tulane’s Mardi Gras Bead Tree
After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.
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New Orleans, Louisiana
After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.
Golden Meadow, Louisiana
One man built this shrine in the 1970s to pay tribute to a miracle he had witnessed.
Kentwood, Louisiana
A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.
Ferriday, Louisiana
The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.
Minden, Louisiana
A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.
New Orleans, Louisiana
An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.
Chauvin, Louisiana
Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.
Pioneer, Louisiana
This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.
St. Francisville, Louisiana
Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.
Pierre Part, Louisiana
This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.
Edgard, Louisiana
The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.
New Iberia, Louisiana
A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.
New Orleans, Louisiana
This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.
Belle Rose, Louisiana
This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.
Chauvin, Louisiana
Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.
New Orleans, Louisiana
An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The first patented shaved-ice machine heralded a snowy wonderland of iced treats at a favorite New Orleans summer shack.
New Orleans, Louisiana
The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.