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

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

The only cave in Louisiana has played host to a state's-worth of clandestine activities.

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

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

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

World's largest precision optical instrument used to detect Einstein's elusive gravity waves.

The highest point in Louisiana, Driskill Mountain at 535 feet above sea level.

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

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

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

One of the last remaining venues on the Old Chitlin’ Circuit is a kaleidoscopic music hall at the end of a dirt road.

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

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

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

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

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

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

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

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.