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Restored Deco interior, main terminal building, Lakefront Airport, New Orleans.

New Orleans, Louisiana

Lakefront Airport

This Art Deco airport was once deemed “the air hub of the Americas.”

Carcosa
Permanently Closed

New Orleans, Louisiana

Ruins of Fort Macomb

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

Beauvoir

Biloxi, Mississippi

The Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library

A historic Civil War estate-turned-museum looks back on the Confederate States of America.

Windsor Ruins

Claiborne County, Mississippi

Windsor Ruins

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

Fort Massachusetts

Gulfport, Mississippi

Fort Massachusetts on Ship Island

Built following the War of 1812, this fort has withstood hurricanes for centuries.

The Emerald Mound

Natchez, Mississippi

The Emerald Mound

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

Jericho of the New Testament & Uri, the Official Greeter.

Lucedale, Mississippi

Palestine Gardens

This roadside attraction in the woods of Mississippi is a scalable replica of the Holy Lands during biblical times.

St. Augustine's Seminary

Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi

St. Augustine's Seminary

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

Inside the interferometer

Walker, Louisiana

LIGO Livingston Observatory

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

drone aerial of the model dec 2019
Permanently Closed

Jackson, Mississippi

The Mississippi River Basin Model

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

Abita Mystery House

Abita Springs, Louisiana

Abita Mystery House

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

The replica stage.

Kentwood, Louisiana

Kentwood Historical and Cultural Arts Museum

A small town museum honors local WWII veterans and the queen of pop who put it on the map.

A granite monument surrounded by test wells marks the site of the nuclear bomb tests in southern Mississippi, code-named Salmon and Sterling.

Lumberton, Mississippi

Salmon/Sterling Nuclear Tests Marker

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Smitty's Super Service Station.

Sandy Hook, Mississippi

Smitty's Super Service Station

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

Red Bluff

Foxworth, Mississippi

Red Bluff

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

Largest collection of antique oilrigs in the world.

Midland, Texas

The Petroleum Museum

The petroleum industry brings you the joys of hydrocarbons and largest collection of antique oil rigs in the world.

Pilot Melli Beese

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

99s Museum of Women Pilots

Only museum dedicated to women pilots, with personal artifacts from Amelia Earhart and other aviatrixes.

View from center field

Mobile, Alabama

Stan Galle Field

Believed to be the oldest active college baseball field in America.

Nova, War Eagle VII.

Auburn, Alabama

Auburn War Eagle

Auburn's iconic eagle flight goes back to a 19th century eagle that dropped dead on the field after inspiring the football team to victory.

Donor Memorial.

Birmingham, Alabama

Donor Memorial

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

Memorial to Leroy Brown in his now permanent home.

Eufaula, Alabama

Memorial to Leroy Brown

That bass was as bad a fish as any angler ever knew.

Mr. Trawick nut, 'selling' boiled peanuts

Dothan, Alabama

Peanuts on Parade

Dothan, Alabama has been invaded by scores of anthropomorphic peanuts.

Pickens County Courthouse.

Carrollton, Alabama

Henry Wells' Lightning Portrait

The terrified face of Henry Wells is etched on this garret window.

The meteorite sitting on top of the console radio from the Hedges home.

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

The Hodges Meteorite

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

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