Places clpartin Wants to Go

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

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

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

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

The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.

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.

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

This sinkhole was created by a tragic industrial accident and continues to ravage the surrounding landscape.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

The above-ground crypts at this Catholic cemetery face north-south instead of the usual east-west.

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

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

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

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

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

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

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

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