Places mmhales Wants to Go

One man built this shrine in the 1970s to pay tribute to a miracle he had witnessed.

The childhood home of the legendary blues guitarist and singer.

First opened in 1939, this legendary performance venue was a haven for Black musicians including Ray Charles and Little Richard.

“The Cajun Music Capital of the World” has kept things French in a Louisiana prairie town for over 75 years.

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

A unique post-modern public space in the middle of the Warehouse District in New Orleans.

After the oysters have been shucked, and the restaurant's been shuttered, the terrazzo sidewalk from the 1940s is all that remains.

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

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

Striking images of New Orleans history, including colonizers, soldiers, Klansmen, scientists, sharecroppers, and more, are depicted in frescoes that line the walls of this transportation hub.

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

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

In a city famous for its cemeteries, it's no wonder these are easy to overlook—they clock in at just a few inches tall.

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

This city block-long devotional site, a replica of a famous site in France, is dedicated to the patron saint of grandmothers, mothers, and educators.

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

The beautiful, fruit-covered facade hints at this building's former life.

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

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

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

A swamp and garden tour featuring local wildlife and exotic botanical specimens from around the world.

The oldest operational cathedral in the U.S. has one shell of a way of projecting speakers' voices.

An artist weaves "wooden quilts" with scraps salvaged from his Katrina-damaged home in Tremé.

A haunting, yet lovingly hand-hewn potters' field full of graves that flood with each heavy rain.