Places ladytecate Wants to Go

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

Inmates dig the graves at the largest prison cemetery in the U.S., the final resting place of both cowboys and Indians.

Located in a remote part of a Louisiana wildlife refuge, this tree has been standing for more than 1,200 years.

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

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

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.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

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

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

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

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

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

A blues musician so talented that people said he must have traded his soul to the devil was born in this house.

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

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

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

The man who wasn't there.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

This one-woman cemetery was a small civil rights victory.

Constructed in 1859 as a general store and post office, the store is still used to this day and was featured in the Walking Dead series.

This sacred cavern, 400 feet deep, is home to millions of bats and an ancient burial ground.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

This grimly-titled Texas cemetery is all that remains of a Wild West settlement with possibly the worst name.