Quirky Tourist Attractions in or near Louisiana

While in Louisiana, you might enjoy a visit to:

The museum displays the state's retired electric chair and many other grim penal artifacts. The rodeo is held twice each year, one of only two remaining prison rodeos in the nation.
~42 miles from Baton Rouge.

Justice is supposed to be blind, but the big heads outside the Lafayette Courthouse also depict it as brainless.
~55 miles from Baton Rouge.

You can smell it as soon as you reach the island. Take a tour; see how tabasco sauce is made! The Buddha dates to 1100 AD and is in a glass-walled temple in the company's "Jungle Gardens." If you plan to go there, bring bug spray.
~59 miles from Baton Rouge.

Visitors to the La Branche plantation will find several unexpected sights, such as the largest pecan tree in Louisiana, the grave of Hitler's horse Nordlicht, and the bathtub of President Zachary Taylor.
~61 miles from Baton Rouge.

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