Places ERuler39 Wants to Go

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Continuing the tradition of the dime museum in style.

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.

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

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

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

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

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

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

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