Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

A 200-year-old live oak on the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.

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

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

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

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

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

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

Town not known for anything except its strange name.

A notorious Route 66 eatery once frequented by Al Capone.

The only mill in the state that features a covered bridge.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

Kentucky's anomalous peninsula projecting into the Mississippi River, site of legendary earthquakes and local feuds.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

This landmark church at the Flathead Reservation mission features 58 ceiling and wall frescoes painted by the mission's cook.

Crystal clear, drinkable mountain spring water by the side of the road.

After this former brothel closed, its interior remained almost frozen in time.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This cemetery is one of the last remaining traces of a drowned old Western town.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

A once celebrated industrial wonder now lurks in a quiet corner of Flathead Lake.

The only road through the heart of Glacier National Park.