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The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

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

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

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

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

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

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

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

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

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

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

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

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

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

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.

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

Legend says a primate-like cryptid prowls this otherworldy sliver of the Louisiana bayou.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.