Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

This museum pays tribute to the Cherokee leader who created a written language for his people.

This improbable contraption was passed down through five generations of industrious Tennesseans.

One of the Cemestos prefab homes built to secretly house thousands of Manhattan Project workers.

A bronze sculpture honors the 12 black students who attended the first integrated public high school in the segregated South.

Over 20,000 sets of spice shakers reveal the surprisingly telling history of our most basic spices.

Walk the whole Mississippi River!

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

This "second" cemetery represents New Orleans' attempt to keep cholera at bay.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.

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

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

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

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

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