A grandiose octagonal home crowned by a large dome stands out among the antebellum mansions.

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

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

This alley-cum-fan gallery in the ex-Nirvana drummer's hometown holds the world's largest drumsticks.

The childhood home of Jerry Lee Lewis was converted into a museum dedicated to his musical legend.

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

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

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

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

The LSU mascot lived on the college campus in one of the most impressive tiger habitats in the country.

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

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

One of the oldest continuously-operated gay bars in the United States is allegedly haunted by Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams.

This strange, small castle on the bayou has withstood the test of time and weather.

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

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

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

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

Giant heads occasionally litter the industrial Houston neighborhood where sculptor David Adickes has his studio.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

There is an unmarked red button hidden over Houston's Buffalo Bayou that is just begging to pushed...

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

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