Places BryanKnight Wants to Go

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

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

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

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

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

A calm and comfortable place to hang out with cats and kittens up for adoption.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

The stone labyrinth in this New Orleans city park was laid to symbolize healing in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

The only rotating bar in New Orleans has been slowly spinning since 1949.

A museum to a cave explorer whose tragic death was a media sensation, and whose corpse became a tourist attraction.

World's largest collection of Coke-related items not held by the Coca-Cola company.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

An equine tribute in a charming Southern city that calls itself "The Horse Capital of the World."

After a water tower painting was accused of being an ad, a simple fix was made that gave the city a motto.