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

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

The short-lived history of a new republic and British control in West Florida.

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

A museum within a former train depot tells the true story of a distinctly French-Louisiana musical genre.

Louisiana's tallest waterfall is only a short hike away from the middle of nowhere.

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

A 200-year-old bar is all that remains of one Mississippi River town's rough-and-tumble past.

This monument to the victims of a tragic explosion is said to turn and look at passing cars.

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.

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

The home and birthplace of Caroline Dormon, a naturalist, artist, and the "mother of the Kisatchie National Forest."

A steeple in the shape of a golden hand pointing straight up commemorates Zebulun Butler, the first full-time pastor of this Mississippi church.

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

The art deco colossus played a role in war and medicine aside from hosting the iconic Louisiana Hayride.

From a supper club to a gay bar to an HBO shooting location, this 125-year-old Victorian mansion has lived many lives.

One of the largest collections of intact Victorian-era waterworks equipment in the world.

One of the largest publicly funded mural in the country is one city's love letter to itself.

Learn about the history of Shreveport in one of the city’s oldest surviving buildings.

One of the best-preserved Native American mounds remaining in the southern United States.

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

This ancient settlement contains some of the largest earthen mounds in North America.

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