Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

The collection of 80+ pieces created between the years 1100 and 1500 is intended to be seen, heard, smelled, touched, and tasted.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

A building so large that it has its own weather.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

The former home of the Nobel Prize-winning American writer is now home to dozens of six-toed cats.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

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

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

This distinctive Crescent City tradition dates back to the days of horse-drawn carriages.

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

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

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

This New Orleans statue of a portly figure in a goofy hat pays homage to a classic of satirical literature.

A hurricane-stricken oak tree has been reborn as a beautiful chainsaw artwork.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

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