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

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

A reimagined 19th-century Acadian village featuring authentic Cajun-style homes filled with artifacts specific to the period.

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

This racially troublesome eatery thought a new coat of paint could erase its offensive connotations.

A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

Catch a live blues set in a former 1930s grocery store on the Mississippi River.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

An eerie and beautiful group of columns mark the site of a grand mansion lost to time and fire.

The second-largest ceremonial mound in the United States is an artificial hill that is loosely shaped like a pentagon.

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 R&B singer's modest church guarantees a religious experience, regardless of your beliefs.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

Since 1939, this no-frills spot has been turning out perfectly seasoned renditions of a Delta staple.

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

Pull off Highway 61 in high summer for fried green tomato BLTs, turkey legs, and boiled peanuts.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

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

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

Built by prisoners of war, the largest small-scale model ever built includes eight miles of tiny streams that now sit abandoned.

This ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood was home to the civil rights icons and the site of a shocking assassination.

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