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Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

Made of giant chains and hung with shackles, this iron cross honors those unknowns who perished under American slavery.

The last surviving bastion of the Baquet restaurant empire serves up superb soul food.

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

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

This Birdsill Holly fire hydrant is the remnant of a very different type of hydration innovation.

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

The tallest monument in a historic New Orleans cemetery was prompted by romance and dash of pettiness.

This 250-to 375-year-old live oak tree towers over the back garden of a local history museum.

This creepy, yet oddly beautiful cemetery is home to one of the founding fathers of Lake Charles.

This roadside establishment in between Houston and the Louisiana border has the largest alligator in captivity

This Choctaw/Thai restaurant celebrates Indigenous cuisines from different continents.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

This private mansion turned Catholic bishop’s home is an iconic Galveston building.

The historic tall ship is one of just three of its kind still sailing open waters today.

Despite changing times, the legendary stage has proved the show must always go on.

The statue, located at a mansion-turned-emancipation museum, honors Galveston’s history as the birthplace of Juneteenth.

One of the largest historical collections on Texas and the American West.

The deadly but beautiful ornamental oleander was planted all over the island of Galveston after the hurricane of 1900.

This memorial and the seawall that it stands near are powerful symbols of the island’s resilience.

This tiny, hurricane-resistant house in Galveston is one of the city's most notable architectural oddities.