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Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

An otherworldly musical haven in The Big Easy.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

This abandoned Civil War fortress is slowly being swallowed by the waters of Lake Borgne.

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

This small Key West museum is packed with dozens of artifacts that illustrate the life of the iconic playwright.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

A self-explanatory attraction allows fans to respectfully remember and honor a comedy legend.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

Neglected resting place of some of the city's early luminaries—and a woman encased in concrete.

In the depths of the Everglades, one man has dedicated his life to studying the elusive Skunk Ape.

A parade of interactive nostalgia nestled within a giant brick building in downtown Hattiesburg.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.

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

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

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

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

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

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

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

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