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

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

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

A small World War II museum housed in what was once the largest navigation school in the United States.

One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.

Learn about the history of Shreveport in one of the city’s oldest surviving buildings.

A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

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

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

This quaint museum in a long-running workshop is dedicated to a fixture in New Orleans lighting.

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

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

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

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

Anne Rice, one of the most influential writers in gothic literature, is buried alongside her husband in a New Orleans cemetery.

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