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A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

This architectural triumph is the only Frank Lloyd Wright house in Alabama.

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

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

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.

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

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

Tucked away on a hilltop in the backwoods of Mississippi lies the remains of a blues legend.

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

This small hut in the middle of a parking lot was once the wooded sanctuary of the 'Hermit of Montrose.'

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

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

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

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

A 19th-century Gothic, castle-like statehouse by the Mississippi River.

Once defending the city of New Orleans from invasion by sea, this fort faces an uncertain future.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

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

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

Storyville was New Orleans' historic red light district and hotbed of jazz music, sometimes referred to simply as "The District."

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

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

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.