Places kstav Wants to Go

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

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

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

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

A 19th-century utopian religious society designed to align with the latitude of Jerusalem.

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

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

After serving in Vietnam, Korea, and even a stint in the Turkish navy, the unique ship is now open as a museum.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

The South's nickname was supposedly born at a former bank in New Orleans' French Quarter.

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

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

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.

Pirates had to be ousted from the land where this now ruined Louisiana fortress was built.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.