Giant novelty guitars now mark the spot where Robert Johnson is said to have sold his soul to the devil.

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

Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.

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

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

Introducing the Green Fairy to her fawning masses.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

One of the longest water bridges in the world was built over a supposedly haunted swamp in Louisiana.

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.

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

A Rodeo for Prisoners.

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

A miscalculation turns a very shallow freshwater lake into a very deep saltwater lake.

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

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