Louisiana Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in Louisiana. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Baton Rouge | New Orleans
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Abbeville: C.S. Steens Syrup Mill - Big Cans - Abita Springs: Abita Brewery Tours and Beer
- Abita Springs: Abita Mystery House
- Alexandria: Giant Crawfish
- Alligator Bayou: Giant Alligator Snapping Turtle
- Alligator Bayou: Giant Alligator Snapping Turtle
- Angola: Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum
- Arcadia: Bonnie and Clyde Embalmed Here
- Avery Island: Tabasco Factory and Giant Buddha
- Baton Rouge: Big Root Beer Mug
- Baton Rouge: Dog Made of Dog Food Bowls
- Baton Rouge: Huey Long Death Gun, Speechifying Statue
- Baton Rouge: Huey Long Shot Here: See the Bullet Hole
- Baton Rouge: Huey Long's Towering Tombstone
- Baton Rouge: Large Head of George Washington
- Baton Rouge: Mike The Tiger Habitat
- Baton Rouge: Monument to Inventor of the Dollar Sign
- Baton Rouge: Muffler Man as Parade Float Star
- Baton Rouge: Mystery Submarine
- Baton Rouge: Sing The River Sculpture
- Baton Rouge: Uncle Jack
- Baton Rouge: WWII Destroyer Kidd - Pirate of the Pacific
- Bernice: Birthplace of Willie Robertson
- Bienville: Tall Texan Statue
- Bossier City: Barksdale Global Power Museum
- Bossier City: Mardi Gras Museum
- Bossier City: Muffler Man: Bubba's Cowboy
- Bossier City: Musical Back to the Future Car
- Bossier City: Uncle Buck's Gator Bayou
- Breaux Bridge: Animatronic Swamp Puppet Show
- Breaux Bridge: Champagne's Cajun Swamp Tours
- Breaux Bridge: Giant Crawfish Sculpture
- Carville: National Hansen's Disease Museum
- Chauvin: Kenny Hill's Sculpture Garden
- Covington: Insta-Gator Ranch
- Covington: The Nose
- Covington: World's Largest Ronald Reagan Statue
- Crowley: Giant Guitar, No Accordion
- Darrow: Graves of the Married Dogs
- DeRidder: Hanging Jail of Beauregard Parish
- Des Allemands: Big Catfish and Pole
- Ferriday: Jerry Lee Lewis Family Museum and Liquor Store
- Frierson: Largest Mailbox in Louisiana
- Gibsland: Bonnie and Clyde Ambush Museum
- Gibsland: Bonnie and Clyde Death Site
- Gibsland: Historic Bonnie and Clyde Gas Station
- Gibson: Wildlife Gardens - Feed Alligators From Your Porch
- Golden Meadow: Holy Mary Shrine
- Golden Meadow: Petit Caporal Trawl Boat
- Gray: Big Shrimp Boots
- Gray: Big Shrimp Boots
- Greenwood: Gas Station Oil Derrick
- Hammond: Dr. Charles Smith African-American Heritage Museum
- Haughton: Touchstone Wildlife and Art Museum
- Haughton: Very Tall, Skinny Cross
- Henderson: Prehistoric Park
- Jean Lafitte: Barataria Museum
- Jennings: Gator Chateau
- Kenner: Mighty Mississippi Prize Fight Statue
- Kentwood: Britney Spears Museum
- LaPlace: 50-Foot Wooden Alligator
- LaPlace: Frostop Root Beer: Rotating Neon Mug
- Lacassine: Louisiana Rum Distillery Tour
- Lafayette: 13-Foot-Tall Front Yard Indian
- Lafayette: 9/11 Memorial Beams, Rocks, Dirt
- Lafayette: Empty Head of Blind Justice
- Lafayette: Evangeline Maid Spinning Bread Loaf
- Lafayette: Giant Saw
- Lafayette: Lafayette's Photogenic Fireman
- Lafayette: Miss Rose's Bar: Happy Man
- Lafayette: Pioneer Trading Post
- Lafayette: Sit Next to Rosa Parks
- Lake Charles: Little Richard Alligator
- Lake Charles: Robot Made of Auto Parts
- Logansport: Big Sand Bass on a Pole
- Logansport: The Bucking Horse
- Marksville: First Bowie Knife
- Marthaville: Grave of the Unknown Confederate Soldier
- Metairie: Modified-for-Mardi Gras M-Man
- Metairie: Scary Pelican in Front Yard
- Metairie: USS Metairie: Fake Submarine
- Monroe: Biedenharn Coca-Cola and Bible Museum
- Monroe: Chennault Aviation and Military Museum
- Monroe: Grave of a Married Man
- Moreauville: Pilot Who Vanished Chasing UFO
- Morgan City: Tour a Famous Oil Rig
- Morganza: Marker: Where Stars Flirted with Local Girls
- Natchitoches: Big Al's Feeding Show
- Natchitoches: Steel Magnolias Movie House
- New Orleans: Andy Jackson: New Orleans' Favorite President
- New Orleans: Benito Juarez, Hero of Mexico
- New Orleans: Birthplace of Dixie
- New Orleans: Boy and the Boot (hospital)
- New Orleans: Boy and the Boot (race track)
- New Orleans: Cabildo Museum: Napoleon's Death Mask
- New Orleans: Cemetery Chapel with Hands and Feet
- New Orleans: Dr. Bob's Folk Art
- New Orleans: End of the Jefferson Highway
- New Orleans: Fats Domino and Thomas Edison
- New Orleans: Fats Domino's Waterlogged Piano
- New Orleans: Fisherman's Castle on Irish Bayou
- New Orleans: Flashy Tombs of Metairie Cemetery
- New Orleans: Flooded House Museum
- New Orleans: Formerly Upside Down Giant Frostop Mug
- New Orleans: Germaine Cazenave Wells Mardi Gras Museum
- New Orleans: Giant Safety Pin
- New Orleans: Golden Joan of Arc
- New Orleans: Grave of Marie Laveau, the Voodoo Queen
- New Orleans: Great American Alligator Museum
- New Orleans: Haunted Bed & Breakfast
- New Orleans: Home Of Madame LaLaurie: Torturer, Murderer, Socialite
- New Orleans: Hurricane Katrina Relics
- New Orleans: Jacques the Butcher
- New Orleans: Lighthouse Building
- New Orleans: Mardi Gras World
- New Orleans: Marie Laveau House of Voodoo
- New Orleans: Meteorite on a Golf Course
- New Orleans: Molly Marine
- New Orleans: Museum of Death
- New Orleans: Museum of the American Cocktail
- New Orleans: National WWII Museum
- New Orleans: Nicholas Cage's Pyramid Tomb
- New Orleans: Odd Fellow's Rest, Poor Folks Cemetery
- New Orleans: Old Man River
- New Orleans: Oldest Bar in the U.S.
- New Orleans: Peter Wolf Toth Indian Head
- New Orleans: Pharmacy Museum: Leeches!
- New Orleans: Quirky Monuments of New Orleans
- New Orleans: Rougarou: Legendary Cajun Swamp Monster
- New Orleans: Scrap House: Katrina Memorial
- New Orleans: Sculpture: "Tomb of the Unknown Slave"
- New Orleans: Statue of Ignatius J. Reilly
- New Orleans: Storyland
- New Orleans: The Man Who Built New Orleans
- New Orleans: Tree Of Life
- New Orleans: Voodoo Museum
- Newellton: Giant Mailbox
- Okland: Arkansas-Louisiana 1931 Kinship Monument
- Ossun: The Tree of Soles
- Patterson: Cajun Jack's Swamp Tours
- Patterson: Phantom F4, Racing Airplane Collection
- Pearl River: Patriotic Miss Pearl, Gator
- Pioneer: Mysterious Poverty Point Mound
- Plaquemine: Chicken Yard of Plaquemine
- Plaquemine: Freedom Tree and Purple Martin Sanctuary
- Point Pleasant: Tiny Church - Chapel of the Madonna
- Ponchatoula: Giant Strawberry
- Port Fourchon: 16-Foot-Tall Mermaid and Oil Rig
- Powhatan: Toothy Gator Bus
- Quitman: Large Rocking Chair
- Raceland: Auto Parts Scrap Mechanic
- Raceland: Peter Pan House
- Rayne: Frog Statue - Frog Capital of the World
- Rayne: Wrong Way Catholic Cemetery
- Robeline: First Capital of Texas: It's in Louisiana
- Rodessa: Frog Level - Concrete Frogs
- Ruston: North Louisiana Military Museum
- Ruston: T-33 Shooting Star
- Scott: Survivor Oak
- Shreveport: 14-Story Mural, Largest in the USA
- Shreveport: Big Rooster
- Shreveport: Fort Humbug, Log Cannon
- Shreveport: Giant Dalmatian With Glowing Spots
- Shreveport: Museum of American Fencing
- Shreveport: Pig on a Roof
- Shreveport: Rockin' Elvis Statue, and Others
- Shreveport: Shreveport Water Works Museum
- Shreveport: Trans-bulance
- Simsboro: Driskill Mountain: Louisiana's Highest Point
- Slidell: Giant Catfish
- Slidell: Jayne Mansfield Died Here
- St. Martinville: Creepy Oak and Pine Alley
- St. Martinville: Evangeline Oak
- Thibodaux: Arm of St. Valerie
- Thibodaux: Zam's Swamp Tours
- Transylvania: Bat Water Tower of Transylvania
- Ville Platte: Louisiana Swamp Pop Museum
- Wallace: Whitney Plantation: Learn About Slavery
- West Monroe: Duck Dynasty Headquarters
- Winnfield: Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Baton Rouge: Bleeding, Weeping, Smiling Miracle Mary
- Bossier City: Indoor Volcano Show
- Delacroix: End of the World Sign
- Enterprise: Jim Bowie's Relay Station
- Gibsland: The Authentic Bonnie and Clyde Museum
- Grosse Tete: Tony the Truck Stop Tiger
- Lafayette: Muffler Car Parts Sculpture
- Lafayette: USA Rocket Yard Art
- Lake Charles: Mardi Gras Museum of Imperial Calcasieu
- Lake Charles: Transformer Robot
- Many: Museum and Pawn Shop: Albino Bats
- Metairie: Muffler Man - A King
- New Orleans: Eerie Deepwater Horizon Memorial
- New Orleans: Feejee Mermaid, Animal Freaks
- New Orleans: Jeff Davis: New Orleans' Other Favorite President
- New Orleans: Jefferson Davis Died Here
- New Orleans: Kuyper Cake Collection
- New Orleans: Monument New Orleans Would Rather Forget
- New Orleans: Musee Conti: Wax Museum of New Orleans
- New Orleans: Sacred Shrine to Jon Bon Jovi
- New Orleans: The Paraplex - Paranormal Ghost Attraction
- New Orleans: Westgate Museum of Necromancy
- Ponchatoula: Ole Hardhide: Town Gator
- St. Rose: Grave of Hitler's Horse, Zachary Taylor's Bathtub
- Talullah: Delta Village
