The only home of the famous French impressionist painter open to the public is now a museum and bed and breakfast.

The only cave in Louisiana has played host to a state's-worth of clandestine activities.

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

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

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

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

The crumbling ruins of this southern American fort have survived storms, war, and cults.

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

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

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

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

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

Explore 4,000 years of European and American art history in the heart of northwest Louisiana.

A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

Campus tradition says couples who walk beneath this enormous oak will stay together forever.

A peg-legged tightrope walker did not reveal his name as he was dying, and so he was buried as “Rope Walker."

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

A serene temple with stunning stained glass hides in downtown Dallas.

This collection of bronze hands comes from astronauts, presidents, baseball greats, and more.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

The man who wasn't there.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

This unassuming layer of clay boasts an out-of-this-world origin story.