Places tracylynn45 Wants to Go

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

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

An underwater city for the dead.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

This relatively recently abandoned brewery is a tragic reminder of the continuing effects of Hurricane Katrina.

This historic New Orleans cemetery is the final resting place of members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

A typical "Old South" manor, once owned by author Anne Rice, served as the setting for several of her witchcraft sagas.

Site of a former hidden treehouse in New Orleans.

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

This Louisiana folk art gallery is a gnarled collection of driftwood homonculi.

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

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

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

Roadside attraction with more than 1,000 stuffed and mounted animal skins displayed in simulated natural habitats with hand-painted backdrops.

Religion and personal struggle gave birth to this collection of concrete angels.

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

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

This strange example of the Egyptian Revival architecture trend now holds Mardi Gras floats.

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

Before becoming a public park, this spot was a shell midden, a fort, and an amusement park.

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