The former home of the 11th president of the United States.

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.

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

A small museum celebrating the work of a Mississippi artist who had a unique connection with the natural world.

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

A museum and shop on Bourbon Street located in the French Quarter.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

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

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

This house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan was destroyed twice and reconstructed to near original condition.

A brick-lined alley full of public artwork tucked away in downtown Gulfport.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

A natural sandstone bridge hidden in the Sewanee forest.

Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

Every year, a Louisiana town remembers a brief Civil War truce inspired by Masonic brotherhood.