Places gnstrong420 Wants to Go

The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

An abandoned warehouse turned art sanctuary in New Orleans.

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

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

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

This humble hole-in-the-wall is home to an incredible pig ear sandwich and serious civil rights history.

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 theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

The highest point in Mississippi is a hilltop that was once used to bombard a nearby town with artillery.

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.