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

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

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

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

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

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

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

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

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

The ill-fated plan to reroute the Mississippi so that Union ships could bypass Confederate fortifications on the river bend.

This iron and wood Civil War city-ship was the first vessel to be sunk by an electrically detonated torpedo.

The final resting place of the camel who served with the Confederate Army during the Civil War.

A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."

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

A downtown filled with nearly deserted historic buildings was revived as a pastel paradise.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

Memorials are nearly all that remains of this Arkansas prison camp, where thousands of Japanese Americans were forcibly relocated during World War II.

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

This 16th-century pole was once used in brutal public executions.

Crystal hunters can dig for their own stones at this DIY mine in Arkansas’ quartz belt.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

An ever-growing collection of rare and strange objects owned by local Arkansas illusionist Maxwell Blade.

A beautiful botanical garden in the heart of the Natural State.