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Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

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

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This Garden District mansion was built to be bigger and grander than its original owner's former partner turned rival.

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

From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

Installed as a beacon of hope for a hurricane-racked island, the statue had to be moved multiple times due to the eroding coast.

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

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.

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

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

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

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

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

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

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

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